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Identifier: 02845216.425.emory.edu
Title: The history of Methodism (electronic resource)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: New York : Eaton & Mains
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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womensmissionary societies at work in the Church, the GeneralConference organized the Womans Missionary Society of theMethodist Episcopal Church, South. Its business affairsand the general management of the work were placed underthe control of a General Executive Association; but in 1882the constitution was revised, the objects and methods ofthe organization more clearly defined, and the name GeneralExecutive Association changed to Womans Board of Missions.Subsequently the word foreign was inserted in the consti-tution and charter, so that the name now reads, WomansBoard of Foreign Missions. Mrs. Juliana Hayes,.of Balti-more, Md., was the first president, Mrs. D. H. McGavock, ofNashville, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. James White-worth, of Nashville, treasurer. The organizations already existing became auxiliary tothis connectional Society The school for girls at Shanghai,China, was committed by the General Board of Missions tothe Womans Board, and Miss Lochie Rankin, who had been
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X Womans Foreign Work 1383 in charge of the school, was adopted as the first representa-tive of the Womans Missionary Society At the first anniversary there were reported fifteen Confer-ence societies, with 219 auxiliaries, and 5,890 members. Thereceipts for the year were over $4,000. Another missionarywas sent to aid Miss Rankin, and appropriation of $1,500made to build a school at Nantziang, and $1,000 to Braziland Mexico. The story of the first bequest, of $100, to the Society byHelen M. Finley, to aid in doing what she would gladlyhave done had her life been spared, has been told asa memorial of her during all of the years of the societyshistory Each successive year has added numerical and finan-cial strength, enabling the Society to assume new obligationsand to extend the work already begun. The centennial year,1884, was marked by a notable increase of contributions.A fund of $2,308 was raised for the establishment of a collegefor girls at Rio de Janeiro. The receipts for the yea

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