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Cokesbury District Meeting.

Cokesbury District Meeting.
The annual meeting OF the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society OF Cokes-
bury District convened in Honea Path +,
September 1-3.
The exercises began Friday evening.
On account of the weather, the regula
program was postponed until Saturday
evening and short, informal meeting
held instead.
Saturday morning, the devotional ex-
ercises were conducted by Rev. ]. w.
Humbert. Mrs. w. T.. Wightman
called the meeting to order. Mrs. l..
8. MacSwain was elected secretary.
At roll call twenty.three delegates an
swered. There were alsO present Mrs.
M. G. Owens, district secretary Mrs.
E. s. Herbert, and Mrs. J. w. Hum
bert, Brothers Peter Stokes, Driggers,
Humbert aud Dunlap were in atten-
dance, and IL was q source of pleasure
and encouragement to have these pas
tors with us.
Mrs. Humbert read from the Hand
Book the duties of delegates. The sec
retary's report Of Cokesbury Distr let
was very fine, showing gain In men,
bers and money. There has been
faithful work aud earnest prayer by our
beloved district secretary. Each menu
Der in the district should help her.
A fund has been started for the en-
dowment OF chair in the Training
School, to be called the 5. Q. Trueheart
Lectureship.
The absolute necessity Of sending
prompt, correct and legible quarterly
reports was again emphasized. 1t was
needless to say that the dues of ten
cents q month per member are not
sufficient for enlarging the work or
even carrying 1t on; hence the necess'-
ty for the payment of the pledge mon
ey. South Cardinals part of the sum
required is So. 700; Cokesbury's part is
$500.
Greenwood has the largest society in
the district. The three societies there
support a Bible woman; they rejoice IN
having q substitute. The representa-
tive of Ninety-Six stated that each lady
in the church was asked to contribute
to the pledge money. Abbeville raised
$50 more this year than last. New
berry has life member. Honia Path
auxiliary raised about three times as
much money as 1t did few years ago.
Zoar society consists Of one member,
who pays tea dollors year. May not
many isolated We men follow her ex-
ample? Bethlehem auxiliary, at Coro-
naca, is the youngest-not yet year
old, and has contributed to every fund,
making total of $3.50.
The president urged each member to
read the Womsn's Missionary Advo-
cate and other church papers, saying
she ought to do this from q sense Of
duty, If not for pleasure, Mrs. Wight.
man at the same time paid high trib-
ute to Mrs. Butler, editor of the W. F.
M, Advocate, She spoke of her great
capacity for work, the cheerful willing.
neas with which she took every burden
laid on her, of her long, faithful SER
vice to the paper, All were asked to
pray for editors and those who write,
since we are influenced greatly by what
we read. Then prayers were requested
for our pastors-that God would bap.
tize them with the Holy Spirit that
they may lead US to higher, boiler
things,
on Sunday morning, the hour before
service was devoted to deeply spirit
ual testimony meeting, conducted by
Mrs. Wightman. Brother Stokes
preached the morning sermon from
Mat. ;2l. 1t was al earnest, impress
sive sermon. He said that he realized
for the first time the magnitude Of the
work done by the women since the Or
ganization OF their foreign missionary
society twenty-seven years ago, and
spoke in glowing terms of the import
ant part they are taking in the redemp-
ton of the world.
At the children's mass meeting Sun
day afternoon, Mrs. Wightman, Mrs.
Herbert, Mrs. Humbert, and Mrs. Med
lock made instructive talks.
Sunday evening, Brother Stokes de-
livered the address of welcome in be-
half of the church. IT was his first op-