illustration - Julia Chester Emery,
Executive Director of the Women's Auxiliary 1876-1916
Image courtesy of the Episcopal Women's History Project
Background:
Bishops from
Britain and American have met in the first Lambeth Conference.
Women can
vote in the territories of Wyoming and Utah, and national suffrage
organizations have formed.
Slavery has
ended in the U.S., but segregation is growing.
Extreme
evangelicals leave the Episcopal Church to form the Reformed
Episcopal Church.
The Church
has authorized a separate hymnal with 532 hymns and tunes.
Women
continue to run and teach in Sunday Schools; work in local guilds;
sponsor the activities of parish life; found schools, hospitals, and
orphanages; serve as organists, choir members and directors; serve as
missionaries around the world and on reservations; support mission and
raise funds for local projects; write religious materials; and serve as
deaconesses, parish visitors; and found and join religious orders.
General
Convention has approved the formation of the Women's Auxiliary to the
Board of Missions and the first national gathering of women has
occurred at General Convention.
Bishop
Potter Training School for Deaconesses has opened.
Native
American women form their own church societies.
Anna Julia
Cooper becomes a major voice for racial justice, especially in the
Episcopal Church
The first
woman has been licensed as a lay reader in a remote community in
Louisiana.
