Covenanter Witness Vol. 53 - Rparchives.org

have'ones."business women. This year a spiritual goal, "TheSearch For True Wisdom," has been set for us by ourcompetent Uniform Program Committee from thePhiladelphia Presbyterial.Two years ago when I accepted this office Isaid, "Lord, in keeping with our meditation theme:"I'll trust,I'll pray,serve."I'llIt has taken all three to carry on in this capacity, but it has been a joy to find so many busy, talented, consecrated women of our Covenanter Churchaccepting this same challege. It must have been aprophecy of this 1954 Synodical that was recordedin the 68th Psalm:"The message given by the LordAt His command is shownThe women are a mighty hostWho make the tidings known."In World War II, a soldier was out in a devastatedarea, when he thought he heard music. As he struggled on, he came to the remains of an old church.Looking in at the window he saw three other GI'sgrouped together singing truths as found in Psalms18 and 146."Oh God, our help in ages pastcome."Our hope for years toTogether they were strengthened. As we review ahasty panorama of the activities of our women atwork for Christ today, may we too gain hope andstrength for the years to come.First, we turn our eyes northward to welcomethe two societies, Almonte and Lochiel, Canada,hitherto unattached, who this spring joinedNew York Presbyterial. Mrs. Hayes McKelvy haspossibly surpassed us all in the expanse of temperance work as she has carried on in more than twentytwoschools through out the year.Pittsburgh Presbyterial comes into the limelight in her continued yearly financial support ofthe Indian Mission $666.00 last year a pledgemade years ago when their representatives, Dr. andMrs. W. W. Carithers, gave their lives in service toconvert the Oklahoma Indian. Today a second generation from Pittsburgh Presbyterial holds aloft thebanner in the persons of Rev. and Mrs. D. C. Ward.Pittsburgh Presbyterial seems to have caughtthe Carithers spirit, as proclaimed by that greatmissionary in his address to the first Kansas Prebyterialthirty-five years ago. Said he, "We sometimesfeel and act as though this movement were one ofthe 19th century. But mission work was not designedby man, but originated with God in the councils ofeternity. God's promise of success of mission workis based upon the truth of God's existance. 'As Ilive,'saith the Lord. Do you want any better underwriting than that?"The King's Daughters of Santa Ana, a live wireY.W.M.S. group celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary last spring. May they truly exemplify theKing's Daughter on the Pacific Coast.We welcome in Parnassus, a new Young Women's Missionary Society.Kansas has the record of the first "double"Memorial Certificate, for Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Tippingiven by their daughter Lulu. Whyparents ? Last year there were ten Life and MemorialCertificates. This year there were twenty-five, thusnot honor bothnow making a total of near $6,000.00 in our Life andMemorial Fund. Be alert, later in our program, tothe proposed expenditure of these funds.Our Synodical now has representatives on eachof our Missionary Boards ; and has complied with thewishes of Synod in assuming the paying of pensionsof our retired women missionaries. Not large. That'strue. They ought to be more.In response to the recommendation of the 1950retiring Junior superintendent, we have today anational Intermediate or Jr.Hi Conference the melting pot of adolescence from all our congregations.The matter of who should sponsor this group wasunder discussion last year, but at our Grinnell Planning Committee, November, 1953 although the W.M.S. has always sponsored the Juniors and was willing to assume the Intermediate sponsorship, it wasdecided that due to the magnitude of the project(the group being enlarged this year to include highschool freshmen) that the C.Y.P.U. sponsor the organization this year, but that one of the sponsors befrom the Women's Synodical. Mrs. Paul Wright isserving in conjunction with her husband, Dr. PaulWright.A large group of juniors is in session today.Mrs. Phillip Martin has worked long hours, prayedand planned much to make this missionary endeavora success. Credit goes to her for starting The Covenanter Junior page in the Covenanter Witness, containing junior projects for missions, and planningmany activities for Grinnell. She has given her unto make this Junior conference astinted energysuccess.Our committee of Publication of CovenanterMissionary Literature has overseen two publicationsof North and East of Musa Dagh by Miss EvangelineMetheny and How Young Fu Saved a Bible by MissRose Huston. Today "Taught of The Lord" (HelpsFor Junior Leaders) by Mrs. Hayes McKelvy, willsoon be off the press.At our Synodical in 1956, the 100th anniversaryof our missionary work, why can't we have writtenthe historyof the Synodical? Do we have a volunteer? Mrs. Dodds had desired to do it, but failinghealth prevented.Some of our women have published plays : Mrs.Ross Latimer, Mrs. Ralph Wilson, Mrs. Sam Boyle,Mrs. Howard Elliott, Mrs. Edith Duguid and possiblyothers. Are our sources exhausted ?God is calling women today as in the days ofIsaiah. Listen to His voice: "Rise up, ye women thatare at ease; be troubled ye careless Christ'scharge to us at this our 15th Synodical is to rebuildour altars in the church and in the home; to renewthe sacrifice, to rekindle our fires ; to rededicate ourselves through covenant signing with our sons anddaughters, to the great task of making Christ known.August 18, 1954