Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-07-20


scum at Richmond, Va, she paus
led in her busy life to see that this
Twas done, bearing the expense
F.! herself.
She was an honored member Of
the BoofIesborough Chapter OF
Daughters of the american Rev
=. oluticn. In all that she planned
and executedshe had the vision OF
a statesman, and it was possibly
through qualities inherited from
ancestors skilled in affairs of
! state, and from other ancestors of
heroic minds, who were willing
even to leave their native land of
| France in centuries gone by, that
they might worship God as con-
science dictated, that she found,
as the years went by, her interest
in the affairs of the great world
! broadening and deepening, and
became possessed of a constant
desire to have a larger part in the
work of making the world better
through the service and fear of
God.
The Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, of which she early
became a member, had been the
spiritual home of her family for
several generations 1t was thru
this great body of consecrated
men. and women that she elected
to do her part. Her supreme eff
fort was for her own church, and
vet so wise was her service that
al Protestant churches became
her bene6ciaries. She had a great
talent for organization. She also
soon became a splendid platform
speaker. For years, she was the
foremost representative of the
great body of the Southern Meth
odist Communion at all national
and international conferences
where her words carried force
and her wisdom great light. She
was its representative at the
great International Missionary
Convention at Edinburgh, Scot
land, in 1910; at the great Con-
ference in Panama in behalf of |
Latin America in 1916; and at the
International Missionary Council i
which had its first meeting in the |
fall of 1921, at Lake Mohawk, N. !
Y. She was the only woman |
of the joint commission
that planned the celebration of
the one hundredth anniversary Of /
Missions of the two great Metno-
disms, North and South.
In 1920, Miss Bennett and Mrs.
Luke G. Johnson, of Atlanta, Ga /,
we're sent to Europe for the pur-
pose of locating new fields of mis-
5ions for the Methodist church,
made possible by its centenary
gifts. Through her broad travels
and her work she came in contact !
with many of the greatest minds
Of her day and many of the most
notable men and women of her
time. Hers was also a gifted and
fcrceful pen, and both by her pen
and through the spoken word, she
was ever on the alert to carry far
he betterment of her generation. i
Perhaps the greatest missionary
work of her career was the estab-
ishment of the Scarritt Bible
and Training School of Kansas
-ity, Mo, where hundreds OF
missionaries and volunteer work
IT'S have been trained for the
ields, both at home and abroad.
The raising of funds to establish
his great school was Miss Ben
lett's first great public service.
Ter latest missionary achieve
nent was the bringing together
IF a number of Woman's Mis-
,ionary Boards of America for
he establishment of a great
lealth center and school for the
raining of nurses in Shanghai,
-hina. This is to be medical
chool for the women, of China,
nd be the consummation of a Wis
on that was for years in her
leart. In the city of Rio de JAM
.iro, South America, the largest
Institution of learning of her
hurch is named Bennett Col
ege" in her honor.
In the giving of her ability,
ime and strength, she gave also
If her means to every cause in
which she was interested. She
the success of every
undertaking. to the guidance and {
blessing of Him whom she serv- !
ID. In the world war she did her I
,art. Her capacity for work was :
llmost unparalleled. She not ,
'nly led for years the missionary
work of her church, but found |
ime to give to the social side of 5
ife, to her Individual church, to