and 
 
 ‘^Growth 
 
 of the 
 
 ^^^rgdnizcd (oljOoman’s (oHJorJi 
 
 of the 
 
 oSouthern (Presbyterian o^hurch 
 
 by 
 
 Rev. Egbert W. 87nith, D. D. 
 Executive Secretary of Foreign Missions 
 
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^X<Reprinted from the Fortieth M" 
 
 of the Union Seminary Review of October 1928. j<V 
 
Origin and Qrowth - 
 
 of the 
 
 Organized Woman’s Work 
 
 of the 
 
 Southern Presbyterian Church 
 
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 EW PEOPLE have any conception of the immensity of 
 the change that has taken place in the last seventy- 
 five years in the status of women. While many of the 
 so-called stronger sex are still unreconciled to the 
 change, yet we are disposed to believe that in the far 
 future, when another Buckle sits down to write the 
 history of civilization, he will see as the outstanding fact of our 
 present era not the Great War, but the coming of women into 
 their own. 
 
 IIKW or have preachers been the only sinners in this matter, as 
 some cynical sisters would have us believe. Most illum¬ 
 inating and amusing are some features of the early history of 
 the National Educational Association which was organized as far 
 back as 1857. The Constitution provided that any “gentleman”, 
 a teacher or superintendent, could join. About ten years later 
 somebody moved to strike out “gentleman” and put in “person”. 
 But this was defeated by a more than three to two vote. How¬ 
 ever, women teachers in attendance were allowed to write 
 papers, provided the secretary read them. Finally a certain 
 lady, whose name alone would suggest her leadership, a Mrs. 
 Mary Howe Smith, was permitted to read a learned paper on 
 oral instruction, its philosophy and methods. Shortly after, by 
 a majority vote, the word “person” was substituted for “gentle¬ 
 man”. 
 
 MOST interesting proof it is of the excessive, or, as some 
 would say, the admirable, conservatism of our Southern 
 Presbyterian Church that this question of whether a woman may 
 
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read her own report came up in our own General Assembly more 
 than half a century after it had been settled in the National 
 Educational Association, and ran precisely the same course. 
 After fifteen years of mild but persistent agitation, during which 
 the Auxiliary Superintendent’s report was read to the Assembly 
 by a secretary, she was at last permitted to present her report 
 herself in this present year of our Lord, 1928. 
 
 1|r N REVIEWING the work of the women of our Church, we are 
 
 indebted for nearly all our facts to three admirable histories 
 written by women, each one of whom could truly say “quorum 
 pars magna fui”. I refer to “pioneer women of the Presbyterian 
 CHURCH, u. s.” (1923), by Mrs. Mary D. Irvine assisted by Miss 
 Alice L. Eastwood; “the history of the woman’s auxiliary’’, 
 by Miss Jennie Hanna, given at the second annual meeting of 
 what was then known as the Woman’s Council at Kansas City, 
 Mo., in 1914; and “the woman’s auxiliary, Presbyterian church 
 u. s.” (1927), by Mrs. W. C. Winsborough. 
 
 ■^^KOARIOUS ancient records and minute books, yellow and moth- 
 ^ eaten, make it plain that in many places in the South, Pres¬ 
 byterian women in local churches were organized for many 
 forms of Christian work as far back as the first quarter of the 
 nineteenth century. By the time the Southern Ihresbyteriau 
 Church was organized and the Civil War ended, the majority of 
 our churches had some form of local woman’s organization, and 
 many of them had three or four, all born of a desire to meet 
 local needs or to carry the Gospel to the heathen world. 
 
 S PROSPERITY slowly returned to the stricken and devas- 
 tated South, these societies of godly women continued to 
 multiply, and to enlarge and diversify their activities. Of the 
 good they accomplished no adequate account has even been given 
 or can be given. Their record is on high. They aided the pastor 
 in numberless ways, they looked after the furnishing and equip¬ 
 ment of the church building, they helped in the care of the sick 
 and the poor, they searched out and visited the new families, 
 they supported young men through college and seminary, they 
 helped the mission work in congregation. Presbytery, Synod, and 
 Assembly, and many a time the Woman’s Society was the only 
 
agency that kept some weak and discouraged little church alive 
 and functioning. What the prayer life of these societies, “where 
 two or three are met together in My 2^ame'\ has meant in the 
 life of the Church, the State, the Nation, God alone knows. In 
 a church of which I was pastor, there suddenly developed a deep 
 and genuine revival, resulting in many conversions. As it was 
 in the heat of summer, with no special meeting in progress, 
 I was as much surprised as delighted, until I discovered that 
 for some weeks previous, without any public notice given, one 
 of the women’s societies had been meeting daily to pray for an 
 outpouring of the Spirit. 
 
 IjQ UT the chief interest of these societies, the purpose for which 
 most of them were organized, was Foreign Missions. In 
 hundreds of churches where the men seemed as a rule indifferent 
 to this cause which was declared by our first General Assembly 
 to be the very object of the Church’s existence, the missionary 
 fires were kept alive and glowing on the altar of our women’s 
 hearts, as they met weekly or monthly to hear about, and pray 
 for, and give to, often out of their pitifully small means, that 
 great cause which lay so near our Master’s heart and formed 
 the burden of His last command. How our Church’s Foreign 
 Mission work would have fared during those years without these 
 societies of devoted women it is painful to contemplate. 
 
 this cause seems to make a peculiar appeal to women 
 has been a frequent subject of inquiry. May not the 
 answer lie in two characteristics of hers, which, though a snare 
 and a curse when misdirected, are yet her distinctive strength 
 and glory. The first is the simplicity and directness with which 
 she sees her ends and moves toward them. Precisely this is 
 what Kipling emphasizes and illustrates in that famous poem of 
 his with its startling refrain, “For the female of the species is 
 more deadly than the male”. When this simplicity and intensity 
 of aim are focussed not on deadly but on heavenly ends, she sets 
 us a glorious example. What in human language could be plainer 
 or more emphatic than our Lord’s missionary command with its 
 two tremendous adjectives, “Go ye into all the icorld and preach 
 the gospel to every creature''? It is the woman’s glory that 
 
with the same simplicity and intensity with which our Lord 
 uttered this command, she accepts it and moves to its accom¬ 
 plishment. 
 
 Cnir'HE other distinctive characteristic explaining her Foreign 
 Mission zeal is the unusual measure in which she possesses 
 that divinest of all God’s attributes, compassion. This it was 
 that impelled the first missionary, the Son of God Himself, to 
 leave His Father’s House and come down to our sin-cursed, 
 suffering race to bring us the glad news of Redemption and Life 
 Eternal. And the measure in which we yearn to carry the glad 
 tidings to the suffering darkened millions of heathendom is the 
 measure of our likeness to Him. 
 
 1|D UT in the work of these various church societies one serious 
 lack was felt. While nearly every church of any size had 
 its women’s organization, and often three or four in the same 
 church, of course under sessional control, working along differ¬ 
 ent lines to different ends, yet among these societies there was 
 no uniformity of organization, no systematic way of getting 
 together for conference, no educational policy for training these 
 groups of earnest women in the whole work of the Church or 
 promoting efficiency by a wide study of the best methods. There 
 was no department in the Church for handling such matters. 
 Indeed, so conservative was our Southern Church that there was 
 much opposition to any organization above the local societies. 
 
 ■jirN 1884 the effort to supply this need began to take definite 
 shape. In that year Miss Jennie Hanna, of Kansas City, Mo., 
 a woman in delicate health, but of rare gifts, of apostolic vision, 
 and of heroic faith and energy, published an article advocating 
 the bringing together of the societies of each Presbytery into a 
 Presbyterial Union, after the plan in use in the Northern Pres¬ 
 byterian Church. Stirred by this article, Mrs. Josiah Sibley, of 
 Augusta, Ga., a much older woman of similar spirit, seconded 
 Miss Hanna’s efforts, and two years later these two devoted 
 women, in the face of determined opposition from many ecclesi¬ 
 astical leaders and innumerable other obstacles, succeeded in 
 transmitting to the women of our 2,000 churches the plan for 
 
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Presbyterial organizations. These efforts bore fruit. Our women 
 began to see and feel the necessity of further organization. In 
 May, 1888, were organized the two Presbyterial Unions of East 
 Hanover, Va., and Wilmington, N. C., at first for Foreign Mis¬ 
 sions only. Before the close of the year eighteen more were in 
 existence. The next year saw others formed, despite the stren¬ 
 uous opposition of prominent ministers. By 1912 the women of 
 all the Presbyteries except two were organized. 
 
 ■jr N 1904 were organized the first Synodicals, those of Virginia 
 and Texas, thus uniting the extremes of our Church’s terri¬ 
 tory. In 1908 Alabama was organized at Birmingham, in 1910 
 Missouri at Kansas City, and Georgia at Atlanta, and in 1911 
 Kentucky at Louisville. 
 
 Hpi UT as yet there was no general overhead organization to 
 unite these six Synodical and eighty-odd Presbyterial 
 Unions. The opening of 1911 saw such consummation apparently 
 as far distant as ever. The waste of power and opportunity due 
 to the units remaining scattered was widely realized among the 
 Presbyterial and Synodical leaders. The loss of strength and 
 inspiration from lack of concentration was keenly felt. But the 
 faith of many was weak, and apprehension was felt regarding 
 the possible effect of even the bare mention of a central organi¬ 
 zation. 
 
 '^L^HEN the wave of enthusiasm swept the country from ocean 
 to ocean as the Jubilee was celebrated in 1910 and 1911, 
 when Women’s Boards of all denominations were having con¬ 
 ferences, enjoying fellowship, reporting progress, comparing and 
 exchanging plans for larger efficiency, the Southern Presbyterian 
 Church was the only evangelical denomination in the whole 
 country which had no central organization of its women, and 
 therefore no adequate records and no accurate reports of their 
 splendid work. 
 
 (JIIpO A CERTAIN busy mother in Kansas City there came a 
 clear realization of the significance and exigency of the 
 situation. In her veins was the blood of pioneer home mission- 
 
aries. She herself had helped to found city missions for Slavs 
 and Italians. As a college graduate she had been Valedictorian 
 of her class. During the spring and summer of 1911 the neces¬ 
 sity of uniform organization under a single leadership so im¬ 
 pressed her that one hot morning, when the children had all gone 
 to school, this busy housewife dropped the breakfast dishes and 
 wrote out “some reasons why a woman secretary is needed’’. 
 The name of this lady, heretofore unconnected with the move¬ 
 ment, was Mrs. Winsborough. 
 
 ^HE sent the paper to Mrs. D. A. McMillan, President of the 
 ^ Missouri Synodical, who heartily approved it, and who 
 wrote Mrs. Winsborough to make the acquaintance of Miss Jennie 
 Hanna, also of Kansas City, whom she would find a kindred 
 spirit. This was the beginning of the closest friendship and 
 cooperation between these two remarkable women. Mrs. McMillan 
 submitted Mrs. Winsborough’s paper to her Executive Commit¬ 
 tee, and with its endorsement forwarded it to the Presidents of 
 the five other Synodicals, Mrs. J. Calvin Stewart, Virginia; 
 Mrs. Chris G. Dullnig, Texas; Mrs. W. C. Fritter, Alabama; 
 Mrs. C. P. Crawford, Georgia; and Mrs. M. D. Irvine, Kentucky. 
 Receiving their unanimous approval, it was revised and reshaped 
 by its author into the form of an overture and unanimously 
 approved on November 2 by the Synod of Missouri. 
 
 ■^SL^ITH a view to the presentation of this Overture to the 
 Assembly of 1912, an unofficial group of women repre¬ 
 senting eight Synods met in Atlanta in February to arrange for 
 an Educational Campaign throughout the Church, with Mrs. 
 Winsborough and Miss Hanna as a Committee on Organization, 
 and Mrs. A. M. Howison, of Staunton, Va., as Treasurer. The 
 Systematic Beneficence Committee, in session in Atlanta at the 
 same time, gave its hearty approval to the women’s plans. The 
 extraordinary success of the campaign proved the time ripe for 
 the new organization. Of this memorable campaign Miss Hanna 
 says: 
 
 HERE was never at any time or under any circumstances 
 what might be called smooth sailing, though the Over¬ 
 ture found many strong champions. Against it great theological 
 
guns ‘volleyed and thundered'. With Paul we could say, ‘A great 
 door and effectual is opened', and *there are many adversaries'. 
 Following his example we tarried right there at Ephesus! 
 
 COURSE any new movement is sure to encounter un- 
 favorable criticism and severe judgment. Much of it 
 came from misapprehension and partial information, but no 
 matter how conservative the man, no matter how annihilating 
 his disapproval, he was almost without exception courteous. 
 Indeed, we found many who were past masters in the art of 
 being charmingly courteous while conceding absolutely nothing! 
 
 ‘‘TjpORTUNATELY for the workers in the strenuous campaign, 
 there were occasional humorous incidents to relieve the 
 strain. The titles of ‘limited pope’ or ‘woman bishop’ even yet 
 are sometimes heard, while it was astonishing how many far¬ 
 sighted eyes could catch a glimpse of the cloven hoof of ‘woman 
 suffrage’. The name of ‘militant ecclesiastical suffragettes’ stuck 
 for a long time to the Missouri women, but never was used again 
 by any one who once met Mrs. Winsborough or Mrs. McMillan 
 in their essential and gracious womanliness.” 
 
 CTT^HE Overture was presented to the Bristol Assembly from 
 the Missouri Synodical, with the approval of the five other 
 Synodicals, forty-one Presbyterial Unions, the Synod of Missouri, 
 and four Presbyteries, while three Presbyteries sent up over¬ 
 tures of protest against the women’s overture. It was understood 
 that the women would ask no financial support for the new 
 department for two years, or until it had proved its value to 
 the Church. 
 
 4|^N unanimous recommendation from its Standing Com- 
 mittee on Women’s Societies the Assembly adopted the 
 Overture without argument and with no audible dissenting vote. 
 The last paragraph of the Assembly action is as follows: 
 
 HAT the four Executive Committees be directed to select 
 a woman possessing suitable gifts, who, under their 
 direction, shall give her whole time to the work of organizing 
 our women into Synodical and Presbyterial Unions and local 
 
societies under control of Synods, Presbyteries, and Sessions, 
 respectively; coordinating Woman’s and Young People’s Societies 
 now organized; stimulating interest by gathering and dissemin¬ 
 ating needed information in order that this mighty Auxiliary 
 in our Church’s life and growth may become even more fruitful 
 of good than in the past.” 
 
 Cnir'HE four Executive Secretaries, who, at the request of the 
 women, had been appointed the Supervisory Committee of 
 the Auxiliary, met by direction of the Assembly the following 
 summer at Montreat with the Synodical Presidents to outline 
 and erect the new organization. 
 
 UpOR months Mrs. Winsborough and Miss Hanna, with the 
 Synodical Presidents, had been diligently searching for the 
 proper woman to head the new organization and had secured the 
 consent of a gifted Georgia woman to undertake the arduous 
 task. But, just before the Montreat meeting, circumstances over 
 which she had no control compelled her to decline the proposed 
 office. Immediately after the Assembly, both Executive Secre¬ 
 taries and Synodical Presidents had urged the office upon Mrs. 
 Winsborough as the woman preeminently best qualified for it, 
 but for personal reasons she had positively declined to consider 
 it. When, however, no other woman was in sight, and the 
 laborious and prayerful planning of years seemed doomed to 
 failure for lack of a leader, Mrs. Winsborough reluctantly and at 
 great personal sacrifice consented to accept office for six months 
 until some one else could be found. She was accordingly elected 
 by the Supervisory Committee, not as Secretary, that name 
 having aroused opposition, but as Superintendent of “The Wom¬ 
 an’s Auxiliary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States”, 
 that being the official designation adopted. Temporary head¬ 
 quarters were fixed at Kansas City, and Mrs. A. M. Howison was 
 elected Treasurer. The Presidents of the Synodicals were con¬ 
 stituted an Advisory Committee. 
 
 TID EFORE the meeting of the next Assembly nine months later, 
 every Presbyterial and Synodical in the Church was or¬ 
 ganized, and at.the expiration in 1914 of the two probationary 
 
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years the value of the new organization was formally and warmly 
 recognized by the Assembly and its budget ordered furnished 
 by the four Executive Committees. 
 
 ■jlTN 1913 the faithful and efiicient Treasurer, Mrs. Howison, was 
 forced by ill health to resign, and Mrs. D. A. McMillan, one 
 of the most loved and trusted leaders of the movement from its 
 beginning, was made Treasurer, and for fifteen years has dis¬ 
 charged the duties of her office with eminent success. 
 
 IjTN 1918 the headquarters of the Auxiliary, after two years in 
 Kansas City and four in Atlanta, were permanently located 
 in St. Louis. 
 
 ■jlTN 1923 the Woman’s Work of our Church was given a further 
 proper and logical development by the appointment by the 
 Montreat Assembly of three women on each of the four Executive 
 Committees. This action was taken, though in the face of strong 
 opposition, by a decisive vote. At the following Assembly efforts 
 made to rescind what had been done were overwhelmingly de¬ 
 feated. Experience had abundantly demonstrated the wisdom 
 of the Assembly’s action. 
 
 ITN 1927, when the Committee on the Assembly’s Work was 
 created, it was decided that eleven of the forty-four members 
 should be women, a proportion that will no doubt be increased 
 before many years. The supervision of the Woman’s Auxiliary, 
 exercised since its organization by the four Executive Secre¬ 
 taries, was transferred to the Committee on the Assembly’s 
 Work, by which it was specifically assigned to Sub-Committee 
 on Woman’s Work, composed of five of its woman members. On 
 recommendation of the Committee on the Assembly’s Work, the 
 official title of the chief executive of the Woman’s Auxiliary was 
 changed from Superintendent to Secretary, the name originally 
 desired by the women. 
 
 CirHE very latest development in our Woman’s Work has al- 
 ready been referred to, namely the gracious permission 
 granted by the Assembly to the Secretary of Woman’s Work to 
 
present her report to the Assembly instead of having it presented 
 for her hy some other Secretary. 
 
 lirN CLOSING this survey it may be well to signalize some of 
 the providential developments and unique features that mark 
 the history and organization of this truly remarkable movement, 
 in many respects the most noteworthy in the annals of our 
 Church. Born in prayer, cradled and nourished in prayer, car¬ 
 ried forward against difficulties and obstacles innumerable hy 
 the heroic faith and zeal of many of the noblest women that ever 
 a Church was blessed with, we should naturally expect to find 
 in it features both providential and unique. 
 
 2 ^ Who could have foreseen that God would call to the leader¬ 
 ship of a movement making such demands upon time and 
 strength a busy housewife, the mother of six children, 
 whose family responsibilities were already taking full toll 
 of time and effort? She consented only to step into the 
 breach till the right woman could be found. How the way 
 was opened for her to continue, and the work made pos¬ 
 sible that seemed humanly impossible, is but another il¬ 
 lustration of that divine Sovereignty which answers the 
 cry of His people, whether they be oppressed Israelites or 
 perplexed Presbyterian women, and gives them the leader¬ 
 ship they need and that He Himself has chosen. That this 
 selection was of God no one can doubt who has eyes to 
 see the difficulties and problems through which the work 
 has been guided or the shining success it has already 
 attained. 
 
 2. The most characteristic phase of our woman’s organiza¬ 
 tion, and its strongest point, is its inclusion of the whole 
 program of the Church in its study, prayers, and gifts. In 
 this it is, I believe, absolutely unique, pioneering the way 
 which the woman's organizations of other Churches are 
 beginning to follow. 
 
 ^ At a time when practically all the woman’s church organi¬ 
 zations were “Boards”, more or less independent, our 
 Southern Presbyterian women decided that their organi- 
 
zation should be only auxiliary and promotional to the 
 regular work of the Church. Though many other denomi¬ 
 national Women’s Boards were collecting and administering 
 their own missionary money, our Auxiliary felt it wiser 
 to unify the work of the local Church by sending its 
 Auxiliary gifts through the local Church Treasurer to 
 the places for which they were intended. 
 
 It is noteworthy that, as a consequence of “2” and “3”, 
 when the Assembly added women members to its Executive 
 Committees, and when its supervision was transferred 
 from the Executive Secretaries to the Committee on the 
 Assembly’s Work, no change was involved in the Woman’s 
 Auxiliary, nor any plan disturbed which was then in 
 operation. Whatever expansion of Church life and work 
 may hereafter take place, the Auxiliary is so organized 
 as naturally and easily to expand with it. 
 
 All the women of the Church are expected to contribute 
 weekly through the duplex envelopes as members of the 
 Church, the Auxiliary receiving no report of these gifts. 
 Each Auxiliary has its own “over and above’’ budget which 
 includes gifts for all the causes of the Church, and also 
 for the support and promotion of the Presbyterials and 
 Synodicals and other departments of Woman’s Work. 
 
 The Birthday Offering, commemorating the birth of the 
 Woman’s Auxiliary, is “over and above” all other budgets, 
 a happy freewill offering, given to Home or Foreign 
 Missions, or some other Assembly cause, to supply some 
 sorely felt equipment need for the uplift and training of 
 women and girls. 
 
 The gifts of the Auxiliaries last year, aside from their 
 contribution through the Church budget, reached the 
 amazing total of $1,716,281. 
 
 The Auxiliary Circle Plan, oflacially adopted in 1917, has 
 proved itself, in the Auxiliary’s own experience and in 
 the judgment of leaders of other denominations, the most 
 
efficient plan of women’s church organization in use today. 
 These circles embrace all the women of the Church, since 
 no woman joins the Auxiliary, but all are members of it 
 by virtue of their church membership. In addition to 
 various other excellent results, this plan is a most power¬ 
 ful, and indeed the only systematic agency for reaching 
 the “indifferent” women in the Church. It places definite 
 and constant responsibility upon the active missionary 
 women for reaching and interesting these indifferent ones, 
 and has been markedly successful in solving this most 
 difficult problem. 
 
 7 ^ From the very beginning of the Auxiliary, paramount 
 emphasis has always been placed upon the spiritual, and 
 as a direct means thereto, the educational elements of its 
 work. The training of the women in all departments of 
 Church work through the Year Book of Programs, of 
 which 38,000 were sold last year, and through the promo¬ 
 tion of special seasons of study and prayer for all the 
 causes, has gone forward by leaps and bounds. Home and 
 Foreign Missions had each last year some 2,400 Study 
 Classes, each of these causes enrolling some 47,000 stu¬ 
 dents. Increasingly has the Word of God focussed the 
 minds and hearts of the women through the Bible Studies 
 in the Year Book, additional Bible Studies by gifted 
 teachers printed each year by the Auxiliary, special Studies 
 of the Gospels, and the like, this steadily mounting effort 
 to have “fTie word of Christ dwell in you richly'^ being 
 partially indicated by last year’s figures of 3,840 Bible 
 Classes with an enrollment of 56,935. Accompanying this 
 has been the ever-growing emphasis on Tithing, on Stew¬ 
 ardship, on Family Altars, and especially on Prayer, last 
 year’s 5,611 Prayer Bands enrolling 59,216 members. 
 
 jpvF THE Auxiliary’s White Cross work, its Training School 
 work, its work for Young People, its Conferences for 
 Colored Women, and various other activities, I have not space 
 to speak. Yet I should not fail to say that daughter Auxiliaries 
 are multiplying in Korea, Mexico, Brazil, and will soon be found 
 
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in all our foreign fields. I attended for two days a Presbyterial 
 at Varginha, Brazil, representing eighteen local Auxiliaries, 
 conducted almost wholly by Brazilian women, and in a manner 
 that I have not seen surpassed anywhere in the home land. 
 
 CTirHE fame of our Woman's Auxiliary is growing. Scores of 
 churches in other denominations are copying it in whole 
 or in part. Very recently the Methodist Protestant denomination 
 officially adopted our plan of organization and is installing it 
 in all its churches. 
 
 Ijr ET me close with a few sentences from Miss Jennie Hanna, 
 whose sainted spirit we may trust still follows with pride 
 and joy the ever-widening fruitfulness of this vine whose seed 
 she planted in faith and watered with her prayers. They were 
 written some months after the Auxiliary had been organized. 
 
 ‘‘CTlir HE results of these few months show to a marked degree 
 the power of the Holy Spirit, without which neither 
 administrative ability nor perfected organization would have 
 availed anything. The outlook is a call to renewed faithfulness. 
 The Woman’s Auxiliary will come far short of its high calling 
 if it forgets it must be more than an organization. It must be 
 an organism indwelt by life, the Life which is life indeed. We 
 are part of His body and apart from Him we can do nothing. 
 Our passion, like our Master’s, must be for souls, not forms nor 
 machinery. Only so can we exalt Him who said, ‘7, if I he lifted 
 up, will draw all men unto me’.” 
 
 “Tfe hath sounded forth the trumpet 
 Which shall never call retreat 
 Oh, he swift my soul to answer Him, 
 Be jubilant my feet!” 
 
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