The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-01
ASA M. BRADLEY.
Pacific Coast Home Missionary,
MOBILE.

PdcttIc Coast Home MISSIONARY.
MOBILE.
A recent letter from Mobile informs
the corresponding secretary Mission
Circle has been organized in that beauti-
full southern city, and the officers are:
President: Miss Sally J. Winston.
Vice President: Miss Sarah E. wilkinson.
Treasurer: Miss Olive Winston.
Secretary Mrs. E. B. Smith.
DIR. Shinn concurs in the w. G. A.
idea that in many places where our
Standard is being set up the Mission
Circle can do the work of Ladies' Aid
and something ore,-contributing to
cultivating the spiritual life among the
members. keeping in touch through the
Topic Cards with Circles wherever
founded. In union there is strength; in
religion as we'll as politics.
DATES TO REMEMBER.
Remember when the State Conven
tions meet. and attend them whenever
possible, whether as delegate or not.
What is needed is the presence Of our
women to hear and become personally
interested, and for loyal Universalist
women to organize Woman's State Mis-
sionary societies wherever the State is
without such an organization
The State Convention of Georgia
convenes on Friday, August g. and as
there are over dozen Universalist So
cieties or churches organized, the wo.
men of these bodies ought to get to-
gether and organize Womans Univer-
salist Missionary society. auxiliary to
the State Convention, and through their
State organization to the Woman's
National Missionary Society.
STICK A PIN HERE.
The Woman's Centenary Association
is auxiliary to the General Convention,
and regards itself as an important part
of the machinery which is to help that
body build up and extend the faith
once delivered to the saints. The body
is made up of many members, and the
Woman's National Missionary Society
ought to lie close to the heart of the
denomination. Any appeal the w. @.
A. makes for itself is also an appeal to
strengthen the hands Of that body since
it is today trying to do the work dele
gated to it by the General Convention
Board,-sustain Missionary on the
Pacific Coast, and the need is more
money to make it successful.
There is no question of loyalty to be
considered, since this Association is,
and always has been, loyal to the core;
but in some way this loyalty ought. at
this iuncture, to find something more
than mere sympathetic expression. when
the General Convention is deeply in
debt,-a debt all the organizations of
the denomination should feel in honor
bound to help sec lifted to retain our
UNCONVENTIONAL self-respect.
Now the thing to be considered is, to
bring this happy issue to consummation
without sacrificing too much in other
directions. Let us all ponder and pray
for the true solution of the difficulty
and work it out somehow.
VERMONT.
The w. U. NJ. S. meets at the same time
and place as the State Convention, on
the last Wednesday in August. and it is
one of the most faithful organizations we
have among our auxiliaries. Their record
this year is not likely to fall behind other
years. or they to fail to plan for future
UNCONVENTIONAL needs.
We trust all our State societies will
not only be planning for greater work at
home, but for the extension of the faith
in the Northwest.
PERSONAL.
From latest advices the President of
the W. G. A., Mrs. Quinby, was at "Man-
chester by the Sea" taking a much
needed rest The Treasurer, Mrs. Dean,
is in Brooklyn, N. Y, and goes from
there to Rochester. She will be absent
from her post for month. The Cores
ponding Secretary, who has found st.
Louis not as hot as represented, returns
to Anacostia, d. c., by the last Of July.
EMILY L. SHERWOOD,
Corresponding Secretary.