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T 9:30 A.M., on Thursday, Sep

tember 30th, a congregation of diocesan officers of the Woman's Auxiliary gathered in the chapel of the Church Missions House. The numbers were small, but they had come from dioceses as distant as Massachusetts and California, Louisiana and Shanghai, and thus seemed to represent the entire Auxiliary in its widely scattered branches.

For the last time, as General Secretary of the Board of Missions, Dr. Lloyd celebrated for them the Holy Communion and gave them words of counsel.

At the close of the service the officers assembled in the Board room, and on nomination of the Secretary, Mrs. Monteagle, president of the California branch, was chosen to preside. Prefacing the meeting, the Secretary reported the gifts made by many friends in the Auxiliary to Dr. Lloyd, reading the letter written to accompany them, which was adopted as the expression of the officers present. Miss Loring told of the cordial readiness with which the contributors had responded to her suggestion, and Miss Lindley spoke of the Juniors' gift. A response from Dr. Lloyd was received and read later in the meeting.

Miss Lindley was then introduced as appointed by the Board on the preceding Tuesday to assist in the Auxiliary, especially in the care of the Junior work. She received a warm welcome from the officers, who also voted the same to the Secretary on her return from her year's absence.

The meeting was then regularly begun by the call of the roll, when the following branches responded: California, 1; Central New York, 1; Delaware, 1; Long Island, 3; Louisiana, 1; Massachusetts, 1; Missouri, 1; Newark, 6; New Jersey, 2; New York, 5; North Carolina, 1; Pennsylvania, 2; Rhode Island, 1; Shanghai, 1; Western Massachusetts, 1. Visitors also were present from Chicago, Hankow and Western New York.

The Secretary made her report, in the course of which she mentioned the changes made by death since the last meeting with them, especially in the deaths of Mr. Thomas, Miss Carter, Mrs. Cochran, Miss King, Mrs. Schereschewsky and Miss Protheroe, and to these the president of the New York branch added the name of Miss Alexander, a young officer of that branch, the news of whose death had just reached them. A motion of heartfelt sympathy was extended by the officers to friends and Auxiliary branches specially bereaved. The Secretary was also asked to send a letter of greeting and loyal co-operation to the new Treasurer of the Board of Missions.

After the Secretary's report, the of cers reported: from Central New York. an initial meeting of diocesan and district officers to plan work for the new year; from Long Island, a missionary exhibit; from Louisiana, a special effort to encourage parishes to meet their apportionment; from Newark, a visitation by officers among the parishes, without waiting for the opening meeting of the diocesan branch; from New York, the co-operation of the Juniors in an institute being planned by the educational secretary of that diocese; from New Jersey, a Quiet Day; from Pennsylvania, the missionary calendar prepared under the care of Mrs. Mitchell, educational secretary, which in this last year's sale paid expenses and gave $400 to general missions and $500 in specials; from Western Massachusetts, a service of intercession and a plea for St. Margaret's School, Tokyo, and its loss of a splendid opportunity for reaching the young women of Japan should its license be withdrawn, also for the library of St. Augustine's, Raleigh.

Representatives of foreign mission branches are always received with special pleasure on these occasions, and Mrs. Graves, of Shanghai, and Mrs. Gilman, of Hankow, were warmly welcomed. Mrs. Graves said it was her first meet

ing with the officers since 1880, when she responded at Miss C. Jay's request and then found herself, just going to China, new and untried, unable to speak for the work which she had never seen. She spoke of the Auxiliary in China founded by Mrs. Twing, in 1893, then with four branches, now with sixteen, with ninety communicants at the last annual meeting, with an offering of $209, half of which for the United Offering, the rest divided variously, but the larger part to go to conduct the station school for the benefit of the women at country stations, who shall come for a few weeks' stay in Shanghai, that they may return better able to help on the Christian life in the communities at home. Mrs. Graves spoke of the need of a small building to house these women during their stay, and for the accommodation of the Auxiliary at annual meetings, and said that for $500 such a building could be put up. Immediately from Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and California each $100 was pledged for this building, and Mrs. Graves going on to speak of Mrs. Schereschewsky's life and influence in China, it was voted to make it a memorial to her.

Mrs. Gilman then spoke of the Auxiliary in Hankow, of the 850 women filling the cathedral church, of the necessity of confining the annual meeting to baptized women only, and of the station class of sixteen conducted last year by Mrs. Roots, needing just such a building as was needed in Shanghai. Pledges of $100 from New York, $50 from Chicago, $25 from Central New York, $25 from Newark and $25 from Long Island, and $100 more from Pennsylvania completed the Shanghai memorial, and gave $137.50 toward the building in Hankow, voted to be also a memorial to Mrs. Schereschewsky, known and loved in both districts. Mrs. Monteagle suggested that the remaining money needed for the Hankow school be left over as unfinished business to the October meeting, and the conference adjourned for noonday prayers in the chapel, but at the close of

the service it was announced that a Newark officer would give the $500 for the school in Hankow, and the officers dispersed with the unfinished business thus happily completed without waiting for another meeting.

MRS. GRAVES' TESTIMONY TO MRS. SCHERESCHEWSKY

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LL who knew Mrs. Schereschewsky would bear testimony to the influence that radiated from a singularly devoted character in which perhaps the most striking characteristics were unselfishness and simplicity.

Those who knew her in the later years of her life would doubtless think of her as one who served devotedly and endured with heroism, as year by year with failing sight and lessening physical strength, yet with unfailing courage, she faced the duties which each day held. But memory goes back to the Mrs. Schereschewsky of nearly thirty years ago-a woman of vigorous health and mental power, but still with the same unselfish simplicity. It takes up the picture of a woman of energy coupled with a calm and happy disposition, meeting the many calls upon time and strength which come to a missionary's wife, and with the instruction of her own two children as a daily task, yet, with her working knowledge of the Chinese language, still able to give religious instruction regularly to the girls of the Jane Bohlen School and to gather the women of the parish into a weekly class, sometimes even crossing the Yangtse to meet the women of the one parish then in Hankow. That she could, when called upon to do so, resign without a murmur these duties which, as she once told me, gave her some of the keenest joy of her life, gives evidence of the depth of her devotion to her Lord and Master, Jesus Christ.

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