The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-17
By CAROLYN E. ELLIOTT

By CAROLYN E. ELLIOTT The "everyore win one membership
 campaign. or the "doube-up' campaign, is the big feature of work that the
 Methodist missionary auxiliaries of the
 Birmingham district are undertaking dur ing October
 "The motto. Everyone win one, ex- plains the purpose of the whole cam
 paign.' reminded the secretary of the district, Mrs. w. J. Yielding. Tt simply means that during this month, every
 member of a missionary auxiliary is
 urged to win another member. The goal
 of the Birmingham district is a double membership, and as so many women be- long to the church who have never joined the missionary society. we are looking forward to a great ingathering
 O. many who have never thought seri-N oLsly of what they are missing n not attending our missionary meetings. We
 are anxious to share with them all we
 are gaining for ourselves, and the priv ilege of well directed service for others that our organization offers" UNEXPIRED TERM While Mrs. Yielding was talking so enthusiastically about doubling up. and inviting somebody else to join the missionary society, was thinking how grateful all these Methodist women are,
 that she consented to fill the unexpired
 term of office. when the former secre-
 tary Mrs Holingshed, left Birmingham.
 Just at the busiest time, too, Mrs. Yield-
 ing was elected to the office, the last quarter, when a whole years work was to be harvested. That Mrs. Yielding is equal to successful leadership at such critical time. is recognized by the women Of the church. who appreciate the value of her recent work with the city inis-
 sion board. in behalf of the cooperative home.
 Mrs. Yielding Is no stranger to the Methodist women of the city, nor to Bir- r,ingham. Two years ago when she came as bride to make her home here, she was welcomed by scores of friends who had met before the lovely Esther Foster, the daughter of Rev. R. A. Foster or the Alabama conference.
 Three years previous to her marriage,
 as state field secretary of the Alabama Illiteracy Commission, Mrs. Yielding had appeared before number of Brming- nam clubs and civic organizations in the ilterest of the grown people of the tstate who, for various reasons, had i been depr,ved of educational advantages. Perhaps no woman in the state is more 1 familiar with educational conditions than Mrs. Yielding who had opportunity dur l ing her association with the department I of education. of working in practically every county in Alabama.
 1 No one can do this type of work with out cultivating the missionary spirit, "
 Mrs Yielding said with a smile. after friend had congratulated Birmingham 1 district upon the selection of such choice leadership
 1 "I have seen numbers of men and l women between the ages of 40 and 60 l years trying to learn to read, so that | they might study the Bible" she | said. and one of the greatest joys of my ;c ,a 1vy | of teachinp eor,e of them.'
 i TYPE OF WORK 1 This type of work. so successfully ac- Somplshed for the state, together I with her training in social service in l New York at Columbus University, has particularly fitted Mrs. Yielding for lead ership in the Christian social service of | the church.N
 l Continuing her earnest appeal to the Methodist auxiliaries in behalf of the ! membership campaign, the secretary said: l The purpose of the membership cam 1 pagn in the end, is to enlist all women who belong to the Methodist church as l II embers of the missionary society. "Of course this won't be entirely ac- l complished in one year but if every one wins one this year. our member 1 ship will be doubled, and this offers a
 splendid beginning for future cam | paigns. The good part of it is. that Bir-
 mingham is not the only district en-
 gagged in this. Every district and con ference in the Southern Methodist
 Church has been requested by the Wom- mans Missionary Council to put on the
 same campaign.
 1 Wouldn't it be splendid" she added i If every district would report to our
 conference in February a doubled mem-
 bership with all the old members ral- | lied to the service?"
 Indeed it would be-" was the very l prompt agreement Indeed 1t will be i in time. The appeal of such work is l too Irresistible and urgent not to be- 1 And the fact that one year ago one woman out of ten in the Southern
 Methodist Church was member of the
 missionary society, and that now one
 woman out of seven is enlisted. Shows
 that the ranks are growing" 1 ENCOURAGING
 That is encouraging" replied the | enthusiastic secretary. and the re- sponse in our district is most encour- l aging. too.
 I The auxiliaries are adopting any | method preferred for carrying on the
 campaign" she added. ''and also for
 the mission study campaign that is in | progress during this month. As the |
 auxiliary members to join the classes has been put on every year at this | time, our members are better acquaint- ed with this than the embership cam
 paign. These two go hand-in hand, | however, and we wish to invite every | new member to join the classes, be- cause it is the most natural thing in 1 the world to be interested in missionary work when one becomes more and more | acquainted with its scope and meaning l New Bible study classes will also be | organized at this time and the classes
 that are already at work will re- l open to new members
 1 T know of no better preparation for
 our week of prayer in November. than | Bible study, reminded Mrs. Yielding T am anxious to stress this preparation and the first place that this week should
 have in our thought, I am sending spe-
 cial notices to the auxiliaries to begin planning for this season now. Then vixen December brings harvest day, we
 believe our societies will be ready for
 la thanksgiving celebration together" SUGGESTIONS
 1 While urging the membership cam paign in every auxiliary, Mrs. Yielding offered to those who had not yet de- cided upon any method for carrying it or, the following suggestions:
 Open meeting: every phase of work represented.
 | Each-one-win-o campaign,
 Membership divided into, two djvi-
 sions. Captain for each side. Goal leach side secure greatest number of
 Inew members.
 Committee appointed to canvass
 women of the church. who do not be-