have to make honorable and grateful mention

Of the ‘Ladies Working Society,’ I have to make honorable and grateful mention. Their efforts the past year have been more than ever successful; and in addition to a personal kindness to myself, which I thus take pleasure to acknowledge, they purpose making considerable improvements in the appearance and comfort of their Church, in the prosecutions of which good work, they have had the example of two generous individuals of the Congregation.

(Source: The Rev. Philip B. Wiley, Parochial Report, Christ Church, Elizabeth City, 1833 Journal of Convention, 24)

for charitable purposes

Our Sunday School is in a flourishing condition; and the Industrious Society formed some years since by the Ladies of the Congregation, for charitable purposes, still exists.

(Source: The Rev. William N. Hawks, Parochial Report, St. Peter’s Church, Washington, 1832 Journal of Convention, 10)

labored with usual diligence

The Ladies Working Society has labored with its usual diligence; and the Sunday School has not ceased to pour its blessings on the young, and to train up candidates for the full communion of the Church.

(Source: The Rev. William M. Green, Parochial Report, St. Matthew’s Church, Hillsborough, 1832 Journal of Convention, 12)

the untiring zeal of these industrious Daughters of Zion

The Congregation continues to be indebted for no inconsiderable share of its outward prosperity, to the little band of devoted females constituting what is called ‘the Church Society.’ Among their other benefactions, they have generously appropriated one hundred dollars of their earnings to aid in procuring a Bell, although the accomplishment of their favorite object, the purchase of an organ, has, thereby, been greatly retarded. Considering the untiring zeal of these industrious Daughters of Zion, and their great anxiety to promote the perfection of our worship, it is to be regretted, that some of those whom God has abundantly prospered in this world’s good, have not stepped forward to enable them, at once, to accomplish their enterprise.

(Source: The Rev. George W. Freeman, Parochial Report, Christ Church, Raleigh, 1832 Journal of Convention, 14)

active and efficient

The benevolent Institutions connected with the Church, are active and efficient. Among them, the ‘Female Industrious School Association,’ is distinguished, not less for its laudable object, than for the zeal and prudence with which that object is pursued.

(Source: The Rev. Jarvis B. Buxton, Parochial Report, St. John’s, Fayetteville, 1832 Journal of Convention, 9)

May they not be weary in well doing

Here also, your Committee would beg leave to direct your attention to those benevolent associations of females which exist in all our larger Congregations, and which, by their silent but efficient course, are yearly fertilizing this portion of the garden of the Lord. Were it practicable to calculate the amount of good derived both to these individuals themselves, and to the objects of their pious labours, it would doubtless be found, that much of our present happy condition as a Diocese, is the immediate effect of the Divine blessing on the work of their hands, and the prayers of their hearts. May they not be “weary in well doing;” – and may the abundant blessing of Almighty God prosper their handy-work!

(Source: Report of the Committee on the State of the Church, 1831 Diocesan Journal, 13)