Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-01-02
An Appeal For Sunbeam Leaders.

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Those who heard, or have read
the annual address of our Presi-
dent, Miss Heck, before the w.
M u. of the S. B. G.. in Oklaho-
ma City almost two years ago
cannot forget 1.-The Immediate
Task" which she laid upon the
willing hearts and ready hands
of the women Of our Southland,
the task of organizing our child
rem and young people and train
ing these young lives with re-
ference to the future, making
character building the dominant
note in all training"
Her call "To Arms" has rever-
berated from hilltop to mountain
sides, has swept over the plains
andresounded through the valleys
causing our young people to be-
come the subject of special study
and prayer, and a great work
has already been accomplished
through this stirring and memor-
able address.
Has the call. reached the
Clinch Valley? What are we do
ing for our boys and girls? We
have in our Union an organiza-
ton for every one of them. The
Sunbeam Bands for the children,
the Junior Y. w. A. and the
Royal Ambassadors Tor R. AS
for our girls and boys and the
young Woman's Auxiliary for
the young ladies.
! hope to have an opportunity
to bring before you each phase
of the work. but at this time
will begin at the very founda-
tion-the children.
Thirty years ago in the Fair
mont Baptist Church in Nelson
county, Virginia. Mrs. A. S.
Elsom. godly consecrated
woman was teaching the prim-
airy class in that Sunday School.
She planned that this class
should have missionary side to
its life. So we'll laid were her
plans and so systematically ex-
ecuted that she had the proud
distinction of. being known as
The Mother of Sunbeams" and
her little class that of being the
first Sunbeam Band.
Her ideas of child training
met the approval and co-opera-
ton of Ter pastor, Rev. George
BraXton Taylor, who introduced
her plans to other churches of
which he was then pastor, then
into several churches in his as
ISOLATION, the work widening
until Sunbeam Bands were form
ed in almost every Southern
State, from Maryland to Texas.
( For eight years DR.. Taylor
had the over sight of the work,
writing about it in the religious
papers under the name of
Cousin George" the societies
reporting to him. and he report
ing to the Foreign Mission
Board, the reports being publish
ed monthly in the Foreign
Mission Journal. The work grew
to such proportions he found he
could no longer manage it unaid-
ed, ard in October, 1895 he
turned the work over to the w.
Nj. u. asking fthat each state
Union appoint woman to be
superintendent of Band.
In April 1893, Mrs. George f.
Williams of Richmond, Virginia,
was appointedE superintendent
of Sunbeam Bands in our State.
For a number OF years she serv-
ed faithfully and well, when God
called her fromlea to "That
Heaven which is made up of
child like SOULS
Her work was done by Mrs.
Leake-th then the ipatchless lead
Ell of Y. w. A'sI and R. AS.
until Mrs. w. l.. Ball was chosen
as Mrs. Williams successor. Up
on her resignatieh in 1912, Miss
Alice Taylor was chosen, by the
W. NJ. u. to be'the leader of !
young peoples work = having
under her care allfbur organiza-
tons. To her you may write at |
No. ia e. Cary Street, Rich |
mond, Virginia, for literature
and helps to organize Sunbeams, [
or any of the young peoples
societies.
In the Clinch Valley Associa4S
ton there are twenty eighth
churches and only two actiyelt
Sunbeam Bands. Ii twenty sikh
churches some one is-needed to d
take UP this work. "Is thai b
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