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EMERY, JULIA CHESTER 203Margaret Theresa edited The Young Christian Soldier and managed the programthat sent “mission boxes” to missionaries in the field. Another sister, Helen Winthrop,assisted with the entertaining of missionaries who visited the Emery homeon East 24th Street in New York. Mary Abbot Twing accompanied her husbandin promoting domestic missions, and, after he died in 1882, she was appointed“honorary secretary” of the Woman’s Auxiliary. In this unpaid position, she aidedthe cause by directing women’s attention to vocational opportunities in the churchand by helping those who were already employed. Two brothers who were clergymenalso lent assistance to the auxiliary in their own parishes and dioceses.Julia Emery was thoroughly committed to the cause of worldwide evangelism,and by the time she retired, she had not only visited every diocese and missionarydistrict in the United States but also traveled to the church’s overseas missionstations in Europe and Asia. On a trip to England in 1908, she attended the firstPan-Anglican Congress as a representative of the diocese of New York and thefifth meeting of the Lambeth conference. During these journeys, she gavespeeches and sought to inspire the women in local auxiliaries, who bore most ofthe responsibility for mission education and for the recruitment of female workers.As she remarked in 1921, “There can hardly be more privileged opportunitiespresented to the women of the Church in the future than those which officers ofthe Auxiliary of the past have already enjoyed.”Shortly before her death, Emery published A Century of Endeavor (1921),which was a centennial history of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Societyof the Episcopal Church. Although her own rhetoric was largely self-effacing,her work resulted in the significant widening of opportunities for women in variousareas of ministry in the church. She died in Scarsdale, New York, in 1922.BibliographyA. “Fifty-fifth Annual Report of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions, 1915–1916,” in DW, 429–33; A Century of Endeavor, 1821–1921 (New York, 1921).B. ANB 7, 498–99; DC, chapter 6; EDC, 167; FD, 96–102; NYT, 11 January 1922; GraceLindley, “Miss Emery in Office,” Spirit of Missions 87 (1922): 83–84; Abby R.Loring, “Our Dear Miss Emery,” Spirit of Missions 87 (1922): 82–83; MargaretA. Tomes, Julia Chester Emery: Being the Story of Her Life and Work (New York,1924); Pamela W. Darling, New Wine: The Story of Women Transforming Leadershipin the Episcopal Church (Cambridge, Mass., 1994), chapter 2.