1889 —1925 A RECORD AND 9 2:3 THE WOMAN’S AUXILIARY TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL 281 Fourth Avenue New York 1889—1925 A Record and a Hope In 1889: $2,188.64. In 1922: $681,145.09. In 1889: One woman missionary supported and one mission church in Alaska built. In 1922: Nearly 200 women missionaries supported and churches and schools in all parts of the mission field. One must search far to find a parallel to this record. What is the history of an endeavor so striking in its growth and so far reaching in its influence? On October llth, 1883, in the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, the Holy Communion was administered for the first time to the women of the Auxiliary gathered as a representative body. At the service and at the meeting which followed the sum of $371.21 was collected, which was divided between the foreign and domestic fields. The next Triennial was held in the year 1886, and at the service preceding the Woman’s Auxiliary meeting the offering was $82.71, which went to the Bishop of Florida for work among the colored people of that diocese. These sums were disappointingly small, and such a record had its lesson for the Auxil- 3 iary. Some of the women had been set to thinking with the result that shortly before the time of the next Triennial a suggestion was made which resulted in the establishment of the United Thank Offering. A member of the Auxiliary, Mrs. Soule, then of the diocese of Pittsburgh, in a letter to Miss Emery made the suggestion that at the coming meeting of the women an offering by all for some one purpose be made. To this was added the request that the secre- tary should select an object and that an account of the plan be published in The Spirit of Missions at least one month before the meeting—a sharp contrast to our present day methods! Miss Emery’s suggestion was that whatever sum should be offered at the Triennial service should be divided equally between the domestic and foreign fields; a church building with furnishings for Anvik, Alaska, and the outfit, traveling expenses and a year’s salary for a new missionary teacher needed in Japan were proposed, each object requiring about one thousand dollars. The first United Thank Offering was, therefore, with only a month’s preparation, presented at the Triennial service held in the Church of the Holy Communion, New York, on October 3rd, 1889. The result was looked for with great eagerness and it was with very real disappointment that the sum was found to be only four hundred dollars—one thousand six hundred dollars less than desired. One member of the Auxiliary came to the rescue, giving the thousand dollars needed for the church 4 building at Anvik, and the remaining six hundred dollars was contributed, which made possible the sending of the first United Thank Offering mission- ary. As the years passed, interest in the new offering grew. Throughout the Auxiliary there developed the feeling that a service of thanksgiving could not be complete without an offering of thankfulness. The system with which we are familiar has been the re- sult, until now there is hardly a diocese or missionary district without its United Thank Offering Custodian, while throughout the Church, in the city parish as in that of the rural community, in mission stations in the foreign field and at home, and among isolated Church-women far from the privileges of parish life, the little blue boxes have a place. This offering most truly deserves the term United. More than one hundred dioceses and missionary dis- tricts have a share in it. The Woman’s Missionary Band in China and the Woman’s Auxiliary in Japan give faithfully and generously. The women in Alaska make bags and moccasins for sale. The In- dian women on the reservations in South Dakota sell lace and bead work, while the contents of the little blue boxes are sent from farms in Maine, from ranches in the West, from rural parishes and from those in the great cities; from American Church- women living in Europe, from Brazil, from Mexico, from the Philippines, and from New York’s East Side. Is it any wonder that the record of such consecrated and united effort should be a notable one? It is as follows: 1889: 1892: 1895: 1898: 1901: 1904: 1907: Church of the Holy Communion, New. York® @ity .00 oo sen eee For church building, Christ Church, Anvik, Alaska, and for sending Miss Lovell to Japan. Saint Paul’s Church, Baltimore, Md.) 2. 2 ee ee Christ Church, Saint Paul, Minn. These two offerings — $76,551.51 — were constituted a Missionary Episcopate Fund: Interest paying salary, first three years the Bishop of Oklahoma; since then the Bishop of Alaska. Trinity Church, Washington, D. C. With this sum fifty women were sent to the mission field and sustained for five years. Grace Church, San Francisco, Cal. This offering was divided among the missionary bishops, one share being re- served for work among the colored peo- ple of the South. Churches and houses were built, land was purchased, mis- sions were started. It is not too much to say that throughout the entire mis- sion field, the results of this offering were felt. Trinity Church, Boston, Mass..... Used for the training, sending and sup- port of women workers and the care of the sick and disabled. Holy Trinity Church, Richmond, Vairoiniaves: sent. ee SORA ADE Used for the same purpose as that of 1904, with the exception that $10,000 was reserved for the building of a training school for Bible women, in Sendai, Japan. 6 $ 2,188.64 20,353.16 56,198.35 82,742.87 107,027.83 150,000.00 224,251.55 1910: ae 1916: 1919: 1922: 1925: Christ Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. .$243,360.95 For women workers; $15,000 being used for building purposes — $10,000 at Saint Hilda’s School for Girls, Wu- chang, China; and $5,000 at Saint Augustine’s School, Raleigh, N. C. Cathedral of Saint John the Di- vine, New York City.......... For women workers, and $15,000 for Hooker School, Guadalajara, Mexico (held in reserve), and $5,000 for St. Augustine’s, Raleigh, North Carolina. Christ Church Cathedral, Saint Louis, Missouri ....... FA ae For women workers. Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Detroit, LIFES) CW P50 Chee ta bee os ein er nie For women workers, with $5,000 for school at Valle Crucis, North Carolina; $5,000 for schoo! at Farmington, New Mexico; $5,000 for school at Guantanamo, Cuba; and $5,000 for chapel at Saint Hilda’s School, Wuchang, China. Trinity Church, Portland, Ore.... For women workers after one-tenth of the offering has been set aside as a permanent trust fund, the income to be applied to the support of retired United Thank Offering workers; $15,000 towards the Florence Greeley Memorial Dormitory for Girls, St. Paul’s School, Lawrenceville, Virginia; $15,000 toward the Nurses’ Home, St. Luke’s Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. New Orleans, Louisiana.......... For women workers after one-tenth of the offering has been set aside and added to the permanent trust fund to be ap- plied to the support of retired United Thank Offering workers; the sum of not less than $25,000 is to be devoted to mission buildings. 7 306,496.66 353,619.76 468,060.41 681,145.09 it) So much for the past—what of the future? In the American Church there are somewhat more than five hundred thousand women communicants. To far the greater number, the United Thank Offer- ing is unknown. If each one of these women were to take a United Thank Offering Box and were to give even as little as one cent a day, in one year the Offering would amount to the sum of $1,825,000 and at the end of three years our Triennial Offering would be $5,475,000! The thought of it kindles one’s imag- ination. So great an Offering would open many doors of opportunity, doors now closed, when, if the women of the Church would have it so, they might swing wide. On the walls of a parish house in a far western city hangs a poster with these words: Who should give to the United Thank Offering? Every woman and girl in the Episcopal Church! —Every woman and girl in the Church joining in a great Thank Offering of prayer, of service, and of gifts! A United Thank Offering indeed! Let us hope for this great end. Let us pray for it, let us plan for it, let us accomplish it. Surely it can be done. Will you help? “Holy offerings, rich and rare, Offerings of praise and prayer, Purer life and purpose high, Clasped hands, uplifted eye, Lowly acts of adoration To the God of our salvation; On His altar laid, we leave them; Christ, present them! God, receive them!” 8 WIN LIST OF UNITED THANK OFFERING MISSIONARIES Corrected to May 1, 1923 In this list the workers are classified as follows: (1) Evan- gelistic work; (2) Educational; (3) Medical; (4) Industrial and Social; (5) Secretarial. DOMESTIC Alaska Allakaket: Miss Amelia Hill (3). Anvik: Miss Margaret Bartberger (3). Ketchikan: Miss Henrietta Barlow (3); Mrs. Elizabeth M. Molineux (2). Nenana: Miss Bessie B. Blacknall (2); Miss Alice Wright (2). Stephen’s Village: Deaconess H. M. Bedell (2). Arizona Fort Defiance: Hospital of the Good Shepherd: Miss Anne E. Cady (3); Miss Annie Powell (3); Miss Frances V. Daven- port (3). Arkansas Winslow: Miss Clara D. Batjer (2); Helen Dunlap School. California Berkeley: Deaconess Anita Hodgkin, Dean of the Deaconess Training School of the Pacific. Colorado Aspen: Miss Mabel White (1), Box 61. Colorado Springs: Miss Nora Van Nostrand (1), 619 N. Cas. cade Avenue. Duluth Wilkinson: Mrs. Jacob Hudson. East Carolina Kinston: Miss Florence B. Huband, 409 Castle St., Wilmington, North Carolina. 9 Fond du Lac Oneida, Wis.: House of the Holy Nativity: Sister Amy (1); Sister Feaneee (1). Honolulu Honolulu: St. Mary’s Mission, 2108 S. King Street: Miss Sara Chung (4); Miss Hilda Van Deerlin (4). Kapahula: Mrs. Gaelic Fitzgerald (2); Mrs. Celia Searle (2). Idaho Fort Hall: Miss A. M. Larery (1); Miss M. P. Parsons (4). Wallace: Miss Susan Sprague (1). Lexington Corbin, Ky.: Miss Margaret Viall (2) and (4); Mrs. H. E. Wentworth (4); Mrs. Adelaide C. Somes (2). Lexington: Mrs. Margaret H. Jackson (2), 630 Chestnut Street. Los Angeles Los Angeles, Cal.: Deaconess Sophie R. Miller (1); 120 Rose- lawn Place. Minnesota Morton: Miss Susan E. Salisbury (2) and (4). Nevada Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nixon: Deaconess Lucy N. Carter. Moapa Indian Reservation: Mrs. Everett T. Jones. New Mexico Farmington: Miss M. C. Peters (1) and (4); Miss S. A. Me- Intyre (3). North Carolina Charlotte: Miss Elizabeth Miller (3). Raleigh: Dr. Mary V. Glenton (3); St. Agnes’ Hospital. St. Augustine’s School: Miss Laura E. Beard (4); Miss Mary L. Gates (3); Mrs. Daisy Williams (3). North Dakota Valley City: Mrs. Margaret Helferty (4), The Church Hall. 10 Northern Indiana Kokomo: Deaconess Marjorie H. Peck (1), St. Andrew’s Church. Oklahoma Muskogee: Mrs. J. L. Templeton (2), 1219 E. S. Blvd. Norman: Miss E. A. Roscoe (4), King Hall. Quincy Galesburg, Ill.: Deaconess Josephine Peterson (1), 381 Frank- lin Avenue. i Panama Canal Zone Panama: Mrs. E. S. Royce (4); Box 256, Ancon, Canal Zone. Philippine Islands Bontoc: Miss Eveline Diggs (1); Deaconess Sarah M. Peppers (1); Deaconess Margaret Routledge (1); Miss E. H. Whit- combe (1). Manila: St. Luke’s Hospital: Deaconess Charlotte G. Massey (1); Miss Lillian M. Montgomery (3); Mrs. Alice I. B. Massey, Miss Marion N. T. Carter (1), c/o The Rt. Rev. G. F. Mosher, 567 Calle; Isaac Peral, Manila. Sagada: Miss Eliza R. Davis (3); Deaconess Anne Hargreaves (1); Besao, Sagada. Porto Rico San Juan: Miss Iva Woodruff (2), Box 1115. Vieques: Miss S. R. Davidson (1). Sacramento Sacramento, Cal.: Deaconess A. I. Clark (1), 2620 M. Street; Deaconess M. S. Blakey (1), 2620 M. Street. Salina Salina: Miss Eleanor J. Ridgeway, St. Faith’s House, 146 N. 8th Street. San Joaquin Sonora, Cal.: Deaconess E. M. Dorsey (1). South Dakota Wakpala: St. Elizabeth’s School: Deaconess Gertrude Baker (1); Miss Priscilla Bridge (1). 11 South Florida Orlando: Miss Caroline Cobb (2), Cathedral School; Dea- coness H. R. Parkhill (1), 8 E. Jefferson Street. Southwestern Virginia Callaway: Miss C. L. Davis (2) and (4); Miss M. F. Mont- gomery (1); Miss M. N. Strayer (2). Dante: Deaconess M. P. Williams (1). Glasgow: Miss Margaretha Williamson. Endicott: Miss Ora Harrison (1); Miss L. A. Newland (1). Keokee: Deaconess Blanche Adams (1). Spokane Colville, Wash.: Miss Agnes D. Roberts, Dayton, Wash. Okanogan: Miss Sarah C. Corbett. Roslyn: Miss Mary B. Powell, P. O. Box 180. Springfield Champaign, Ill.: Miss Maude Whitley (1), 1007 S. Wright Street. Virden: Mrs. A. D. Brackett (1). < Tennessee Monterey: Mrs. Rose Oswell (3); St. Raphael’s House. Sherwood: Mrs. Mabel W. MacDonald (2), Epiphany Mission. Upper South Carolina Graniteville: Miss Sarah C. Cornish (1). Utah Salt Lake City: Miss Sarah Napper (1), 819 E. Broadway; Deaconess M. Shepard (1), 655 N. 2nd West Street. Whiterocks: Miss Rosa Camfield (1). Western Nebraska Mullen: Deaconess Emma J. Smith (1). 12 Western North Carolina Glendale Springs, N. C.: Miss Jennie R. Field (4). High Shoals: Deaconess E. H. Crump (4). Legerwood: Mrs. Pearl Dobbin (4). Linville: Miss Irene Lasier (4). Penland: Miss Lucy C. Morgan (2). Valle Crucis: Miss Virginia Bouldin (2). West Texas Comfort: Deaconess Lucille Bickford (1). San Antonio: Miss Artemisia Bowden (2), St. Philip’s School. Wyoming Laramie: Mrs. Elizabeth H. Corse (2), Cathedral Home for Children. General Field Worker Mrs. Derrill D. Taber FOREIGN Africa, Liberia Barloamah: Miss Emily deW. Seaman (2). Cape Mount: Miss Lois M. Ford (3), St. John’s Industrial School; Miss M. S. Ridgely (2); St. John’s Industrial School. China, Anking Send mail c/o American Church Mission Anking: Miss Elizabeth E. Fueller (1); Miss Alice H. Gregg (2); Miss Alice Jeffer (3); Miss M. K. Montiero (2); Miss M. R. Ogden (3); Deaconess K. E. Phelps (1); Miss M. J. Schaad (5); Miss Velma E. Woods (2). Wuhu: Sister Edith Constance (1); Sister Deborah Ruth (1). China, Hankow Send mail c/o American Church Mission Changsha: Deaconess Gertrude Stewart (1). Hankow: Miss A. M. Clark (1); Miss C. A. Couch (5); Miss Venetia Cox (2); Deaconess Edith Hart (1); Miss Violet L. Hughes (2); Miss Frances C. Kennicott (2); Miss Miriam Bancroft (3). 13 Ichang: Deaconess E. W. Riebe (1). Shasi: Sister Anita (1); Rev. Mother Ursula (1). Wuchang: Miss Annie S. Brown (3); Miss E. M. Buchanan (2); Miss A. E. Byerly (1); Miss E. G. Dexter (3); Miss Pauline Flint (2); Miss Nina G. Johnson (3); Miss Mabel Sibson (3); Miss Edith G. Stedman (1); Miss Olive B. Tomlin (2); Miss Mary E. Wood (2); Miss M.’G. Cabot (3). China, Shanghai Send mail c/o American Church Mission Shanghai: Miss M. E. Bender (3); Miss G. L. Cooper (2); Dr. Ellen C. Fullerton (3); Miss E. W. Graves (2); Miss L. J. Graves (2); Miss L. E. Lenhart (3); Miss M. S. Mitchell (2); Miss Anne Piper (1); Miss Rhea G. Pumph- rey (3). Nanking: Miss Elizabeth Deahl. Soochow: Miss Lillian E. Minhinnick (1); Mrs. W. H. Stand- ring (2). Wusih: Miss Mabel G. Piper (3); Miss Millie E. Weir (3). Yangchow: Miss M. A. Bremer (2); Deaconess Katherine Put- nam (1). Zangzok: Miss Mary A. Hill (1); Deaconess T. L. Paine (1). Cuba Guantanamo: Miss Sarah W. Ashhurst (2); P. O. Box 118. Havana: Send mail c/o The Rt. Rev. H. R. Hulse, D.D., Nep- tuno 54, Havana, Cuba. Miss M. E. Corl (2); Miss Martha K. Cramer (2); Miss A. E. Doggett (2); Mrs. Flora Perez (2); Miss Gertrude Lester (2); Cathedral School, Paseo Y. 15, Vedado. Haiti Port-au-Prince: Miss Marianne Jones (2); c/o Rev. P. E. Jones, D.D. Japan, Kyoto Send mail c/o The Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Kyoto, Japan Kyoto: Miss Marietta Ambler (2); Miss Mona C. Cannell (1); Miss Edith L. Foote; Miss Clara J. Neely (1); Miss Cecelia R. Powell (1); Miss Hallie Williams (2). Osaka: Miss Mary E. Laning (1). Yokkaichi: Miss Helen L. Tetlow (1). 14 Japan, Tokyo Send mail c/o The Rt. Rev. John McKim, D.D., 38 Tsukiji, Tokyo, Japan Akita: Miss Marian Humphreys (2). Aomori: Deaconess E. G. Newbold (1). Hirosaki: Miss Dorothy Hittle (2). Maebashi: Miss Ada H. Wright (1). Mito: Miss F. M. Bristowe (1). Sendai: PE: V. D. Carlsen (1); Deaconess A. L. Ran- son (1). Tokyo: Miss L. H. Boyd (1); Miss C. G. Heywood (2); Miss Bessie McKim (2); Miss Nellie McKim (2); Miss Mabel R. Schaeffer (2); Mrs. Alice C. St. John (3); Miss Ruth Burnside (5). Yamagata: Miss Bessie Mead (1). Mexico Mexico City: Miss Rebecca Parker (2); c/o The Rt. Rev. H. D. Aves, Monterey, N. I., Mexico. IN TRAINING New York Training School for Deaconess: Miss Nancy Ambler; Miss A. R. Bradley; Miss D. C. Comfort; Miss Clarice Wheeler; Miss Ann B. Mundelein. Deaconess Training School of the Pacific: Miss H. A. M. Spitz. John Hopkins Universiy Medical College: Miss Lulu Disoway. Philadelphia Training School: Miss Florence Keefe; Miss Viola A. McGoldrick. RETIRED Alaska: Miss Florence Langdon. Arizona: Miss Eliza Thackara. Duluth: Miss Pauline Colby. Greece: Miss Eugenia Reymond. Honolulu: Mrs. L. F. Folsom; Miss Abbie S. Marsh. Kyoto: Miss Martha Aldrich; Miss S. P. Peck. Liberia: Miss Agnes P. Mahony; Miss S. A. Woodruff. North Carolina: Dr. Catharine P. Hayden; Miss Emma Karrer. Porto Rico: Miss E. H. McCullough. Shanghai: Miss Steva L. Dodson; Miss A. B. Richmond. South Dakota: Mrs. Hackaliah Burt; Miss Jennie Dickson; Miss Mary Francis. Southwestern Virginia: Deaconess A. M. Gibson. Tennessee: Miss Clementine Rowe. Tokyo: Miss Bertha R. Babcock. 15 CONTRIBUTIONS BY DIOCESAN BRANCHES AT THE LAST TWO TRIENNIALS 1919 Alabama oo hie tc ae camera oe eee $ 4,044.49 Alaska vies”, dca’: cetera ctold te ak ee ee S220 Albany vino e-foes cae coe scree ae enters 4,726.66 Arizona cose ee tba eta eee 406.31 A¥kansas. 22. oO. s Comcast 1,601.26 Asheville. 2.2% .- Jick 2 ese eee ee 1,809.92 Atlanta’ 2.455. 52s calc ee cst eet 3,679.61 Bethlehem?.8.)s):.Se 72. to eee 7,410.52 California’: 4522. oy tate eee 5077.13 Central New 7 Y ork so. e 13,303.19 Chicago so eae ae eee eee 12,332.42 Coéloradots. aa. Pe oe ee eee 3,405.00 Connecticutsi ts .i6 soa ee ee eee 12,487.22 Dallas: 2.0 2. Se See eee ~ 2,160.00 Delaware. ss 3 acdsee 7 oe eee 3,055.00 Duluth. +. ee oe Ae eee 943.49 East “Carolina @:.....<. +2.) sat eee 4.257258 Eastern? Oregon «is -s0 es ees 229.01 Easton. one nee eee eee 2,870.55 EQiGe sc see rc cond eee eee 3,574.34 Blorida > So c0.0 oo ee noe ee 709.08 Fond’ dus Lace.) fe. cae eee 808.03 GOOPrglad.. cs csielae cee ke ee Zt Les Hatrisburg 5. oss ons ec eee nee 3,873.64 Honoluluds 2 eee eee 940.36 Tdaho’ cise cee cas eee tee eee 600.00 Indianapolist a"... .5 nent eee 1,558.15 Towa tae ce ces oe ane eee ee eee 1,918.30 Kansas os oo oa oe oc ee Pees te eee ho20.02 Kentucky 40% 42055. oxn oe een 3,317.78 Lexineton Hos