Daughter of Charles EMERY/Susan KELLY
"The late Mary A E Twing by Abby R Loring"
In San Francisco, on the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 14, Mary A. E. Twing passed from her earthly labors in to the rest of Paradise. Among her friends, though far from home, she was suddenly called to her reward. One must be able to look back thirty years, and to remember the conditions then restricting women's work, to realize what the Church owes to this remarkable woman. When in 1871, the Church decided there should be a "Women's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions," Miss Mary A. Emery, of Massachusetts, was invited to be its first Secretary and requested to organize the new Society.
The Secretaries of the Board had rather vague and somewhat narrow ideas of what this Woman's Auxiliary might accomplish.
Miss Emery urged that such a society should have no parish nor diocesan limits, that it should be so organized and administered as to bring into the Church's service every woman in the Church. It should touch every side of the Church's life, educational and spiritual. It should care for the bodies as well as the souls of those it sought to teach at home and abroad. There should be no limit to its possibilities and its influence.
This seemed to the astonished Secretaries a thing almost impossible to accomplish but so assured were they of Miss Emery's ability that they permitted her to carry out her own ideas, and were soon convinced of their wisdom in so doing. The Women's Auxiliary of today is the result of her wise foresight, her unwavering faith, her untiring devotion.
There is probably no person now living who has such an accurate personal knowledge of the whole mission filed - its individual workers - its actual needs - as had Mrs. Twing. Twice in her journeys round the world had she visited our missions stations in foreign lands. In many journeys north and south, east and west, she visited the home missions, everywhere a welcome guest. Her memory was exact her judgment keen, her insight remarkable; her love for the Church boundless; her consecration complete. She was never impatient, never expected impossibilities; was most charitable in her judgments, and to these rare gifts added an unfailing sympathy. What wonder is it that such a woman won the esteem and confidence of the entire Church?
During the thirty years of the existence of the Woman's Auxiliary there has been no forward movement which she had not foreseen and for which she had not laid strong foundations. After four years' service Miss Emery resigned her position to marry Dr. Twing, the Domestic Secretary of the Board, who died in November, 1882.
In the following June Mrs. Twing was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Auxiliary with especial reference to the advancement of the work of the Church on broader lines. During the intervening years, she had retained her interest in the missionary work, had gained wider knowledge, and had increased her influence so that in taking up the new duty, with its greater opportunity, she opened up a new field for woman's usefulness.
It has been during this last period that Mrs. Twing has done so much for the Church outside of strictly missionary lines. As editor of "Church Work," as the leader in the Churchwoman's Conferences, as the friend and helper of the Training Schools for Deaconesses and Church Workers, of the Church's Sisterhoods and the Girl's Friendly Society, she has brought into active service multitudes of women and girls; and indeed, there is no department of Church work, from the care of little children to the rescue of the most debased, in which Mrs. Wing had not a share. To her "all sorts of conditions of men; came for advice and help and encouragement and no one came in vain. There are many of the officers of the Auxiliary who owe to her all their interest in, their knowledge of, and their love for, missions.
No one who has worked with her during these many years, and who has had the privilege of her friendship, can wonder why her influence was so far-reaching and so powerful. That such a woman should be sometimes misunderstood and misjudged, goes without saying. Mrs. Twing was no exception to the rule; but the misunderstanding came from lack of knowledge of the circumstances, or from failure to appreciate the singleness of purpose, the honesty of soul and the high-mindedness of one who could not be other than straightforward.
At home and in foreign lands there are countless souls who under God owe everything to the work and prayers of this humble self-denying servant of the Master. As the years go on more and more we shall realize what she has been to the Church at large and to the Auxiliary in particular. Her last report is her final message to us. It is as Honorary Secretary that Mrs. Twing is best known to the majority of the officers of the Auxiliary. There are very few whose service has been long enough to remember the beginnings - and to most of us Miss Julia Emery is the impersonation of the Auxiliary - a worthy successor of the remarkable woman who was its first secretary.
The new St. Mary's Hall in Shanghai will be a fitting memorial to her who gave her life to the missions of the Church, and who, through all her useful life, longed and prayed for the souls in darkness. The women of the Church have in Mrs. Twing a noble example. If each of us will follow it "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."
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Archdeacon Sinclair, speaking of Christianity's gift to women, says, in words most applicable to Mrs. Twing: "The path of such an one through life is like a river spreading blessings and happiness wherever it flows, even if its course be unobserved. And when she dies it is as when a star falls from the firmament of heave, and leaves behind it a trail of glory."
"The late Mary A E Twing by Abby R Loring"
In San Francisco, on the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 14, Mary A. E. Twing passed from her earthly labors in to the rest of Paradise. Among her friends, though far from home, she was suddenly called to her reward. One must be able to look back thirty years, and to remember the conditions then restricting women's work, to realize what the Church owes to this remarkable woman. When in 1871, the Church decided there should be a "Women's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions," Miss Mary A. Emery, of Massachusetts, was invited to be its first Secretary and requested to organize the new Society.
The Secretaries of the Board had rather vague and somewhat narrow ideas of what this Woman's Auxiliary might accomplish.
Miss Emery urged that such a society should have no parish nor diocesan limits, that it should be so organized and administered as to bring into the Church's service every woman in the Church. It should touch every side of the Church's life, educational and spiritual. It should care for the bodies as well as the souls of those it sought to teach at home and abroad. There should be no limit to its possibilities and its influence.
This seemed to the astonished Secretaries a thing almost impossible to accomplish but so assured were they of Miss Emery's ability that they permitted her to carry out her own ideas, and were soon convinced of their wisdom in so doing. The Women's Auxiliary of today is the result of her wise foresight, her unwavering faith, her untiring devotion.
There is probably no person now living who has such an accurate personal knowledge of the whole mission filed - its individual workers - its actual needs - as had Mrs. Twing. Twice in her journeys round the world had she visited our missions stations in foreign lands. In many journeys north and south, east and west, she visited the home missions, everywhere a welcome guest. Her memory was exact her judgment keen, her insight remarkable; her love for the Church boundless; her consecration complete. She was never impatient, never expected impossibilities; was most charitable in her judgments, and to these rare gifts added an unfailing sympathy. What wonder is it that such a woman won the esteem and confidence of the entire Church?
During the thirty years of the existence of the Woman's Auxiliary there has been no forward movement which she had not foreseen and for which she had not laid strong foundations. After four years' service Miss Emery resigned her position to marry Dr. Twing, the Domestic Secretary of the Board, who died in November, 1882.
In the following June Mrs. Twing was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Auxiliary with especial reference to the advancement of the work of the Church on broader lines. During the intervening years, she had retained her interest in the missionary work, had gained wider knowledge, and had increased her influence so that in taking up the new duty, with its greater opportunity, she opened up a new field for woman's usefulness.
It has been during this last period that Mrs. Twing has done so much for the Church outside of strictly missionary lines. As editor of "Church Work," as the leader in the Churchwoman's Conferences, as the friend and helper of the Training Schools for Deaconesses and Church Workers, of the Church's Sisterhoods and the Girl's Friendly Society, she has brought into active service multitudes of women and girls; and indeed, there is no department of Church work, from the care of little children to the rescue of the most debased, in which Mrs. Wing had not a share. To her "all sorts of conditions of men; came for advice and help and encouragement and no one came in vain. There are many of the officers of the Auxiliary who owe to her all their interest in, their knowledge of, and their love for, missions.
No one who has worked with her during these many years, and who has had the privilege of her friendship, can wonder why her influence was so far-reaching and so powerful. That such a woman should be sometimes misunderstood and misjudged, goes without saying. Mrs. Twing was no exception to the rule; but the misunderstanding came from lack of knowledge of the circumstances, or from failure to appreciate the singleness of purpose, the honesty of soul and the high-mindedness of one who could not be other than straightforward.
At home and in foreign lands there are countless souls who under God owe everything to the work and prayers of this humble self-denying servant of the Master. As the years go on more and more we shall realize what she has been to the Church at large and to the Auxiliary in particular. Her last report is her final message to us. It is as Honorary Secretary that Mrs. Twing is best known to the majority of the officers of the Auxiliary. There are very few whose service has been long enough to remember the beginnings - and to most of us Miss Julia Emery is the impersonation of the Auxiliary - a worthy successor of the remarkable woman who was its first secretary.
The new St. Mary's Hall in Shanghai will be a fitting memorial to her who gave her life to the missions of the Church, and who, through all her useful life, longed and prayed for the souls in darkness. The women of the Church have in Mrs. Twing a noble example. If each of us will follow it "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."
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Archdeacon Sinclair, speaking of Christianity's gift to women, says, in words most applicable to Mrs. Twing: "The path of such an one through life is like a river spreading blessings and happiness wherever it flows, even if its course be unobserved. And when she dies it is as when a star falls from the firmament of heave, and leaves behind it a trail of glory."
Daughter of Charles EMERY/Susan KELLY
"The late Mary A E Twing by Abby R Loring"
In San Francisco, on the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 14, Mary A. E. Twing passed from her earthly labors in to the rest of Paradise. Among her friends, though far from home, she was suddenly called to her reward. One must be able to look back thirty years, and to remember the conditions then restricting women's work, to realize what the Church owes to this remarkable woman. When in 1871, the Church decided there should be a "Women's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions," Miss Mary A. Emery, of Massachusetts, was invited to be its first Secretary and requested to organize the new Society.
The Secretaries of the Board had rather vague and somewhat narrow ideas of what this Woman's Auxiliary might accomplish.
Miss Emery urged that such a society should have no parish nor diocesan limits, that it should be so organized and administered as to bring into the Church's service every woman in the Church. It should touch every side of the Church's life, educational and spiritual. It should care for the bodies as well as the souls of those it sought to teach at home and abroad. There should be no limit to its possibilities and its influence.
This seemed to the astonished Secretaries a thing almost impossible to accomplish but so assured were they of Miss Emery's ability that they permitted her to carry out her own ideas, and were soon convinced of their wisdom in so doing. The Women's Auxiliary of today is the result of her wise foresight, her unwavering faith, her untiring devotion.
There is probably no person now living who has such an accurate personal knowledge of the whole mission filed - its individual workers - its actual needs - as had Mrs. Twing. Twice in her journeys round the world had she visited our missions stations in foreign lands. In many journeys north and south, east and west, she visited the home missions, everywhere a welcome guest. Her memory was exact her judgment keen, her insight remarkable; her love for the Church boundless; her consecration complete. She was never impatient, never expected impossibilities; was most charitable in her judgments, and to these rare gifts added an unfailing sympathy. What wonder is it that such a woman won the esteem and confidence of the entire Church?
During the thirty years of the existence of the Woman's Auxiliary there has been no forward movement which she had not foreseen and for which she had not laid strong foundations. After four years' service Miss Emery resigned her position to marry Dr. Twing, the Domestic Secretary of the Board, who died in November, 1882.
In the following June Mrs. Twing was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Auxiliary with especial reference to the advancement of the work of the Church on broader lines. During the intervening years, she had retained her interest in the missionary work, had gained wider knowledge, and had increased her influence so that in taking up the new duty, with its greater opportunity, she opened up a new field for woman's usefulness.
It has been during this last period that Mrs. Twing has done so much for the Church outside of strictly missionary lines. As editor of "Church Work," as the leader in the Churchwoman's Conferences, as the friend and helper of the Training Schools for Deaconesses and Church Workers, of the Church's Sisterhoods and the Girl's Friendly Society, she has brought into active service multitudes of women and girls; and indeed, there is no department of Church work, from the care of little children to the rescue of the most debased, in which Mrs. Wing had not a share. To her "all sorts of conditions of men; came for advice and help and encouragement and no one came in vain. There are many of the officers of the Auxiliary who owe to her all their interest in, their knowledge of, and their love for, missions.
No one who has worked with her during these many years, and who has had the privilege of her friendship, can wonder why her influence was so far-reaching and so powerful. That such a woman should be sometimes misunderstood and misjudged, goes without saying. Mrs. Twing was no exception to the rule; but the misunderstanding came from lack of knowledge of the circumstances, or from failure to appreciate the singleness of purpose, the honesty of soul and the high-mindedness of one who could not be other than straightforward.
At home and in foreign lands there are countless souls who under God owe everything to the work and prayers of this humble self-denying servant of the Master. As the years go on more and more we shall realize what she has been to the Church at large and to the Auxiliary in particular. Her last report is her final message to us. It is as Honorary Secretary that Mrs. Twing is best known to the majority of the officers of the Auxiliary. There are very few whose service has been long enough to remember the beginnings - and to most of us Miss Julia Emery is the impersonation of the Auxiliary - a worthy successor of the remarkable woman who was its first secretary.
The new St. Mary's Hall in Shanghai will be a fitting memorial to her who gave her life to the missions of the Church, and who, through all her useful life, longed and prayed for the souls in darkness. The women of the Church have in Mrs. Twing a noble example. If each of us will follow it "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."
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Archdeacon Sinclair, speaking of Christianity's gift to women, says, in words most applicable to Mrs. Twing: "The path of such an one through life is like a river spreading blessings and happiness wherever it flows, even if its course be unobserved. And when she dies it is as when a star falls from the firmament of heave, and leaves behind it a trail of glory."
"The late Mary A E Twing by Abby R Loring"
In San Francisco, on the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 14, Mary A. E. Twing passed from her earthly labors in to the rest of Paradise. Among her friends, though far from home, she was suddenly called to her reward. One must be able to look back thirty years, and to remember the conditions then restricting women's work, to realize what the Church owes to this remarkable woman. When in 1871, the Church decided there should be a "Women's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions," Miss Mary A. Emery, of Massachusetts, was invited to be its first Secretary and requested to organize the new Society.
The Secretaries of the Board had rather vague and somewhat narrow ideas of what this Woman's Auxiliary might accomplish.
Miss Emery urged that such a society should have no parish nor diocesan limits, that it should be so organized and administered as to bring into the Church's service every woman in the Church. It should touch every side of the Church's life, educational and spiritual. It should care for the bodies as well as the souls of those it sought to teach at home and abroad. There should be no limit to its possibilities and its influence.
This seemed to the astonished Secretaries a thing almost impossible to accomplish but so assured were they of Miss Emery's ability that they permitted her to carry out her own ideas, and were soon convinced of their wisdom in so doing. The Women's Auxiliary of today is the result of her wise foresight, her unwavering faith, her untiring devotion.
There is probably no person now living who has such an accurate personal knowledge of the whole mission filed - its individual workers - its actual needs - as had Mrs. Twing. Twice in her journeys round the world had she visited our missions stations in foreign lands. In many journeys north and south, east and west, she visited the home missions, everywhere a welcome guest. Her memory was exact her judgment keen, her insight remarkable; her love for the Church boundless; her consecration complete. She was never impatient, never expected impossibilities; was most charitable in her judgments, and to these rare gifts added an unfailing sympathy. What wonder is it that such a woman won the esteem and confidence of the entire Church?
During the thirty years of the existence of the Woman's Auxiliary there has been no forward movement which she had not foreseen and for which she had not laid strong foundations. After four years' service Miss Emery resigned her position to marry Dr. Twing, the Domestic Secretary of the Board, who died in November, 1882.
In the following June Mrs. Twing was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Auxiliary with especial reference to the advancement of the work of the Church on broader lines. During the intervening years, she had retained her interest in the missionary work, had gained wider knowledge, and had increased her influence so that in taking up the new duty, with its greater opportunity, she opened up a new field for woman's usefulness.
It has been during this last period that Mrs. Twing has done so much for the Church outside of strictly missionary lines. As editor of "Church Work," as the leader in the Churchwoman's Conferences, as the friend and helper of the Training Schools for Deaconesses and Church Workers, of the Church's Sisterhoods and the Girl's Friendly Society, she has brought into active service multitudes of women and girls; and indeed, there is no department of Church work, from the care of little children to the rescue of the most debased, in which Mrs. Wing had not a share. To her "all sorts of conditions of men; came for advice and help and encouragement and no one came in vain. There are many of the officers of the Auxiliary who owe to her all their interest in, their knowledge of, and their love for, missions.
No one who has worked with her during these many years, and who has had the privilege of her friendship, can wonder why her influence was so far-reaching and so powerful. That such a woman should be sometimes misunderstood and misjudged, goes without saying. Mrs. Twing was no exception to the rule; but the misunderstanding came from lack of knowledge of the circumstances, or from failure to appreciate the singleness of purpose, the honesty of soul and the high-mindedness of one who could not be other than straightforward.
At home and in foreign lands there are countless souls who under God owe everything to the work and prayers of this humble self-denying servant of the Master. As the years go on more and more we shall realize what she has been to the Church at large and to the Auxiliary in particular. Her last report is her final message to us. It is as Honorary Secretary that Mrs. Twing is best known to the majority of the officers of the Auxiliary. There are very few whose service has been long enough to remember the beginnings - and to most of us Miss Julia Emery is the impersonation of the Auxiliary - a worthy successor of the remarkable woman who was its first secretary.
The new St. Mary's Hall in Shanghai will be a fitting memorial to her who gave her life to the missions of the Church, and who, through all her useful life, longed and prayed for the souls in darkness. The women of the Church have in Mrs. Twing a noble example. If each of us will follow it "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."
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Archdeacon Sinclair, speaking of Christianity's gift to women, says, in words most applicable to Mrs. Twing: "The path of such an one through life is like a river spreading blessings and happiness wherever it flows, even if its course be unobserved. And when she dies it is as when a star falls from the firmament of heave, and leaves behind it a trail of glory."
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