Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-03-16

guarted by the auxiliaries, being al
great success wherever it has been
faithfully used. In 1921 the names
of Mrs. Walter L. STEELE and Mrs.
William P. Everett, werc placed
upon the Memorial Roll, by their
daughters, Miss Mamie Steele and
Miss Bessie Everett, upon a contrib
button to the Memorial Fund of
$500 by each, who are themselves
faithful and devoted members of
our society
scope of the Woman's Missionary
work has broadened, our society
also has extended its work adding
each new feature as it was taken up
by our Council, making all the
changes advocated by council, so
keeping abreast CT the times in mis-
sionary work, till now. we are &C
tive in every department OF the
work of the Woman's Missionary
Council. Our offerings have grown
also with the years, though per
haps not in proportion to our mate
rial prosperity. The. local work of
| the church, including its charities
and the clothing of several children
at our orphanage in Raleigh, is well
organized and efficiently carried
on through the missionary societies.
1t has been our privilege to have
with us at different times during
the years, Miss Belle Bennett, Miss
Blanche Howell, Miss Mary Pescud,
Miss Mamie Myers, Miss Daisy Da-
vies, Miss Elizabeth David mrs.
w. G. Borchcrs) Miss Elizabeth
Lamb, DR.. Mumpower, Bishop
Smith, Mr. Kuygimija, Miss May
Edla Smith, Mrs. Harvey Boney,
Mrs. N. H. d. Wilson, and Miss
Lille Duke. Others perhaps whom
l can not remember.
On the afternoon of February
2Sth our society met in our church
parlor, which had been beautifully
decorated for the occasion with a
profusion of greens, and the lovely
early flowers of spring, jonquils,
narcissus and freezias, to celebrate
its 43rd birthday, having with us as
specially invited guests, Mrs. w. G.
Borchers, at home with her husband
on furlough, from Brazil, and Miss
Elizabeth Lamb, of Fayetteville,
who gave herself almost her life, in
many years missionary service in
Brazil, also the Mary Steele and
Rebecca LeGrand auxiliaries. After
an opening hymn Miss Lamb wa:
introduced by the President TO con
duct the devotional. Her subjcc
was the Divinity of Christ and tho
Inspiration OF the Scriptures, with
selected passages from the Bible sup
porting her argument, as we'll as
passages from secular periodicals
against it. She dwelt upon the ten
ency of the day in our church, an6
in others too, towards rationalisn
and modernism. While allowing tt
. any person the right to think as
he or she pleased, she established
the point that as members of the
Methodist church we avowed our be
lief in the Divinity of Christ, His
virgin birth, His resurrection in tn,
i. body, in short the creed itself, wher
> we joined the church and that W.
can not believe otherwise and b.
loyal to our church and ourselves
She urged us as individuals, ant
as society, to do all in our powe
i, towards the putting away all ra
tionalistic teachings from our owl
, schools and colleges and pulpits
Mrs. Borchers made a most inter
esting and instructive talks on tn
Woman's Missionary work in Bra
iii as carried on by the women o
our church for Brazil, and by tn
Brazilian women themselves, win
have their own missionary societie
through which they also are doin
missionary work, sending contribu
: tons to mchristianized lands.
little ceremony had been planne
in honor of Mrs. F. T. Briggs, on
only active charter'member, but BIZ
cause of her absence on account c
illness, it was omitted The prt