Evening star., 1928-10-11
WOMEN TO DISCUSS
PERSONAL RELIGION
Episcopal Auxiliary Delays
Meeting to Attend Cathe-
draI Rites.

| Their 81 100000 united thank offer
| ing featuring today's participation OF
the Woman's Auxiliary in the affairs
of the General Convention Of the Epis-
copal Church. business sessions of the
organization were postponed until
o'clock in the Mayf1ower Hotel to per-
NIT their participation III the exercises
at Washington Cathedral earlier in the
morning
Personal Religion and Evangelism"
and Domestic Missionary Problems
are scheduled as the principal themes
of the auxiliary'S afternoon session.
With delegates in attendance from at
least four continents. the Woman S
Auxiliary is depended upon to exert
considerable influence in the affairs of
the church as mapped out during the
pending sessions of the convention.
500 Delegates Present.
Miss Elizabeth Mathews of Glendale,
Ohio. who was elected the presiding
officer, told the auxiliary at its opening
session yesterday afternoon that with
women of strong convictions in attend
ance from every part Of the world"
she hoped for full, frank and friendly
discussion" Of all important matters
pending before the body.
delegates from nearly every one Of
the dioceses throughout the country,
most of them with their full quota
of five. Five women from Alaska re-
sponded to their names and five also
from distant Honolulu.
Indicating the widespread activities
of the Women's Auxiliary, one or more
delegates were registered from Anking
Hankow, Liberia Brazil, the Philippines,
Shanghai, Cuba, the Dominican Re-
public, Haiti, Mexico and Tokyo.
A Chinese woman, Miss WI, repre-
Sented the organization in the Chinese
Church, which corresponds to the Wom-
ems Auxiliary and was accorded cor
dial welcome.
Mrs. Hurd Greeted.
Mrs. william D. Hurd, president of
the Women's Auxiliary of Washington
and hostess of the triennial meeting,
was greeted by a standing audience.
During a brief address of welcome
she had brought to the platform for
the use of the presiding officer a chair
which was used N the House of Bish-
ops in the General Convention of 1871
in Baltimore, when the Women's Aux
iliary was created. This chair is to be-
come the property of the Washington
Auxiliary.
Mrs. Mcbride of New Orleans
acknowledged Mrs. Hurds address with
tribute to the City of Washington and
to its auxiliary.
The more important Of number of
reports which followed were those of
Miss Lucy Sturgis. chairman of the
executive board of the auxiliary, and of
Miss Grace Lindley, executive secretary.
Both paid tribute to the late Miss Emily
Tillotson. an educational secretary whose
work was widely known in all parts of
the country. Increased activity on the
part Of the women of the church, in
projects. in study and edu-
cation, in the training of volunteer and
professional workers, in cooperating
with many forms of social service, and
giving assistance to the work of the
church especially in rural communities
increased efforts on behalf of religious
unity, and increased gifts for many pur-
poses were among many subjects dis
cussed in the reports, both of which
emphasized the deep needs of the world
and the incompatible opportunities of
the present time.
Total Is SI2I,727
The corporate gift is special under
y
undertook to secure as special gifts from
the women 100000 for advance mis-
sionary projects. The total reported for
this gift was $121, 1870, much of which
has already been transferred into
schools in Kioto, Liberia, Haiti, Alaska
the Philippines and Brazil
The total sum contributed during the
past three years through the Woman's
Auxiliary for all auxiliary purposes, ie.,
exclusive of the women's regular con-
tributions through their parish churches,
was $3.219,26757. This includes more
than $912000 received in the united
thank-offering of the previous trien-
mum.
Members of the Woman's Auxiliary
were accorded official recognition by
the House of Deputies for the
first time at the opening meeting
of that body yesterday. The house
voted unanimously to give the dele
gates of the auxiliary the right to the
floor and set apart special section
for their accommodation at joint ses-
sions of the Deputies and the House
of Bishops.
The woman delegates and others at
tending its sessions will be among the
guests at the reception this afternoon
from to o'clock to be rendered by
Mrs. Frank B.aKellogg, assisted by the
local Woman'ss Auxiliary, in honor of
the presiding Bishop and Mrs. Murray,
the Bishop of Washington and Mrs.
Freeman and Miss Lindley The recep-
ton will be held in the lPan-American
Building.
Tonight's mass meeting in the Wash
ington Auditorium, at which announce
ment of the united thank offering will
k1o al yuil of 0f
in attendance at the triennial meeting.