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OCTOBER

MISS BELLE H. BENNETT

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.All of the servants of the King
need information about the King’s

business.

All Of the members of the church
ought to be informed about all of
the work of the church throughout
the world.

livery Southern Methodist ought

to know just what his own Church
is, doing both at home and in the mis-
sion fields in other countries. It is
certainly doing a work that is quite
worth while.

There is every reason to expect
that this will be the greatest mission-
ary quadrennium we have known in
our generation.

At home your Boardtof Missions

has enterprised about a dozen lines -

of special work, This includes work
in cities, in rural sections, in indus-
trial centers, among foreign born and
foreign language groups and other

special work.

Then in foreign ﬁelds our lines
are being extended and thousands
are coming to Christ under our lead-
ership. It is the most thrilling story
in the world.

The MissioNAnr VOICE is endeavor-v

ling to give Southern Methodists in-
formation ab ut this extending line

and this gr wing army of Methodists '

;in all th continents of earth.

1.0 [Iethodist can beefﬁcient un-
essvhe is informed. The VOICE con-
tains information that is found in
no other publication. If we meet the
challenge of this hour our people
must be informed.

Let’s increase the circulation to
100,000 this winter. It will mean a
new day in our own Church. “7e can
do it speedily if we will just go at
it in earnest.

THE MISSIONARY VOICE

PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY

THE BOARD OF MISSIONS
of the METHODIST-EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH
A. J. WEEKS and MRS. E. B. CHAPPELL, Editors

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lowed a commission of ten cents on each annual subscription, new
or renewal.

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for change should give the old address as well as the new.

Address all communications and make all remittances payable
to The Missionary Voice, Box 509, Nashville, Tenn.

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act of MarchI 3, 1879.

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1103, act of October 3, 1917, and authorized on July 5, 1918.

CONTENTS

Editorials ........................................................... 291
The Widening Inﬂuence of Christ

The Church and Industry ...........................................
New Secretary Board of Lay Activities ................................ 293
Through GraCe and Inheritance ...................................... 294
Miss Belle H. Bennett, 1888-1922 ...................................... 297
Belle Harris Bennett—Fellow-Worker and Friend .................... 299
Miss Bennett as Churchwoman .................................... 301
The Missionary Stateswoman 302
A World-Wide Missionary, Passion 303
A Lover of All Races 304
Belle H. Bennett, President ........................................... 305
A Life of Intercession ............................................... 306
Tributes from Deaconesses and Missionaries 307
Contributors and Articles on Life and Work of Dr. Belle Harris Bennett 308
Suggested Program for Memorial Service .............................. 308
Intinerating in Siberia 309
A Sudden Conversion 310
The Rev. Robt. S. Stewart’s Work in Japan .......................... 310
The Quality of Work at Union College Attracts ...................... 311
Medical Missionary Appreciates Support of Home Church ............ 311
Idle Churches, Idle Students at Work in Louisville .................... 312
A Practical Gospel 31.3
What the Negro Wants .............................................. 314
Summer Conference for Central and Texas Conferences ................ 314
Bible Lesson for November—Young People ........................... 315

.Young People‘s Program for November ............................... 315

Mission Study Month ................................................ 315
Book Reviews ....................................................... 316
Helps for Leaders of Study Circles .................................... 317
Church Is Monument to Young War Hero ............. . ................. 317
A Helpful Work for Negroes .......................................... 317
Bible Study for November—Adults ........................ - ............ 318
How Funny Papers and Magazines Help .............................. 318
Mission Study Class at Richlands, Va .................................. 318
Program for November—Adults ....................................... 318

THE MISSIONARY VOICE

VOLUME XII

NASHVILLE, TENN., OCT., I922

NUMBER IO

In deference to the \Voman’s Missionary Council and
the thousands in the Missionary Societies throughout
the Church we are devoting much of the space in this
issue of the Voice to contributions honoring the
memory of Miss Belle H. Bennett, President of the
Council from its organization to the time of her death
on July 20, 1922.

In the organized work of Southern Methodist women
Miss Bennett was a distinguished leader for whom all
who were associated with her had profound admiration
and sincere affection. Her inﬂuence extended beyond
her own Church. No one who knew her ever doubted her
love for her own Church but those who knew her best
bear testimony to the genuineness of her interest in
every branch of the Church of God. thile ever loyal to
her own Church and people there were, nevertheless, no
racial or national boundaries to her sympathies.

As President of the VVoman’s Missionary Council and
as a member of the Board of Missions she had a large
share in the development of the missionary program of
the Church during the last decade. As a member of
various interdenominational missionary councils and
commissions she uniformly reﬂected honor On her own
Church.

The cause of missions was her passion and to its
promotion she devoted her best strength and time. Upon
thousands of lives her inﬂuence abides and the cause
which was so near her heart is left in loyal hands—A. J.
Weeks.

Rev. E. H. Rawlings, D.l)., administrative secretary
for the foreign department, Board of Missions, with su-
pervision over mission ﬁelds in Europe, Africa, and
Latin America, reached Nashville headquarters Mon-
day, September 18, after an absence of two months and
a half spent in an inspection tour of: Southern Meth-
odist interests in Europe, together with Bishop XV. B.
Beauchamp, assigned to that episcopal ﬁeld.

Dr. Rawlings reached home in ﬁne health and spirits
and brought a heartening account of the work in this
ﬁeld which was one of the ﬁrst fruits of the (L‘entenary.
While making the survey, Bishop Beauchamp organized
three Methodist missions, the Belgian mission, the
Czecho Slovakia and the Mission to Poland. Later these
missions will be organized into separate annual con-
ferences as the work prospers and becomes self sup-
porting. '

hr. Rawlings reported wonderful revival meetings in
Prague, conducted by evangelists \Valt Holcomb and
Luther Bridgers, who joined the party in Brussels.
This tide of evangelism has spread into the surround-

ing towns he said and as a consequence our church is
becoming ﬁrmly entrenched in centers where Protes-
tantism has been unable heretofore to get a foothold.

Travel through Poland was by means of a private car,
a concession of the Polish government in recognition of
relief work done by our dmiomination in the war-ridden
areas.
constructive relief work in orphanages, hospitals, and
other institutions and is becoming ﬁnely organized and
in many instances will soon be self supporting.

Southern Methodism in Europe is giving a distinc-
tive religious program with a purpose to hinder nothing
that is helping, whatever the organization, and heiping
every organization that is working to beneﬁt these peo
ples. The hearty reception accorded our workers and
the friendly attitude of the people clearly indicates that
Southern Methodism has a message and a mode of pecu-
liarly adapted to the European peoples.

This direct: relief work is being supplanted by

Sishop John M. Moore returned from Brazil Sept.
‘Tth. He went to B 'azil with Bishop H. M. Dobbs last
June to visit the work of our missions in that country
which has been under Bishop Moore’s supervision for
the last four years.

He reports the work in splendid condition. Already
ﬁfty-four Centenary churches and twenty-ﬁve Centenary
parsonages have been built. Theschool buildings at
Passo Fundo are practically ﬁnished; the admin'ist1=;~
tion building at Porto Alegre College is up to the second
story and work on the American College at Porto .Xlegre
and Centenary College at Santa Maria is under way.

Our preachers report a strong revival movement all
over the territory occupied by our Church. '

Bishop Dobbs who is in charge of: that great ﬁeld has
made a ﬁne impression on our workers. The two bishops
made a complete survey of all our work in Brazil.

Bishop Moore was accompanied on this visit to Bra-
zil by his wife.

Under date of August 17, Dr. Pinson sends greetings
from Karuizawa,_Japan. He and Bishops Hay and Boaz
are at this summer gathering place for missionaries.
There are missionaries there from everywhere and this
furnishes a ﬁne olmorttunity to get in touch with the
mission work in our own ﬁeld and as a whole. Bishop
Hay expected to remain there until after the Mission
Meeting August 24:, and go on to China, September 2.
Bishop Boaz and Dr. Pinson with their families ex-
pected to reach Korea about September 10.

The missionary party had a pleasant voyage going
over and all have been kept in health.

292 THEMISS’IONARYVOICE

UCTOBER

THE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONARY COUNCIL WHICH RECENTLY HELD ITS FIRST COMMITTEE MEETING AT THE
INVITATION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AT THE OLD PALACE, CANTERBURY.

The international Missionary Council, which was formed at a Conference at Lake Mohonk, in America last year, represents all the
Protestant Missionary societies of the world, and acts as a clearing house for the common problems and on their behalf carries on

negotiations which may be necessary with national governments.

Their Chairman is Dr. John R. Mott, who is in charge of the Inter-

national work of the Y. M. C. A. Canada ls represented by the Hon. Newton Roweil, who was a member of the Imperial War Cabinet.

The Widening Inﬂuence of Christ

Dr. Robert E. Spoor, one of the great missionary
leaders of the world recently returned from a visit to
the East. lie was gone nearly a year and most of that
time was spent; .in India and I’ersia with glimpses of
other parts of Asia. On his return he made an address
at a dinner given him by the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ, of which he is president, in which he
compared conditions as he found them with conditions as
he saw them on previous visits covering a period of

twenty-ﬁve years. He, closed his address with these

words: “One other impression with which we have come
home. is the impression of renewed conﬁdence and hope.
There are dilliculties enough and the chariot wheels
d 'ag heavily but anyone who takes the long View can
see. more than the diliiculties and the hindrances. He
1111 see the sure and steady gains, the strengthening of
the energies of ("lu-istianity throughout the world. the
weakening of the resistent forces, the seepage of the
ideas of freedom and justice through the thoughts of
men, the ever cl rarer recognition of our Lord Jesus
Christ as the supreme moral judgment and the only
adequate Savior of mankint .”

It is not quite easy for one who reads the news of
happenings and movements among the nations to be
hopeful but a closer study of these movements reveals
the fact that back of many of them is something born of

Christian teaching. China and India, two of the most
populous countries of the world, are just now going
through tremendous struggles and undergoing great
changes. In China warring factions have succeeded the
overthrow of the age-old monarchy. India is stirred
throughout. The fanatic Gandhi, regarded by some as a
saint and by others as a wild man, is now in prison. He
sought for his country self-government. Others are just
as anxious that India shall remain in the British Empire
while the great masses of the people seem unaware of
these contending inﬂuences and wholly indifferent to the
ﬁnal outcome. These nations, like many others, need
Christian guidance. They are not going to remain as
they are and what they become will be determined by the
inﬂuences that touch them now. One of the most hope—
ful facts today is that the Christian forces of the world
are in better position to give leadership and direction to
backward nations than they have ever been.

The stronger nations are busy trying to adjust rep-
arations and repair the losses caused by the war. They
are ﬁnding great difﬁculty in doing it. More than once
they have faced seemingly insurmountable ditﬁculties
and disruption appeared to be inevitable, but the crisis
was passed and another effort made. In the meantime
the League of Nations has accomplished some worth
while results notwithstanding the staggering difficulties

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it faced. Starting out with thirteen member nations, all
of them former allied powers which had ratified the
Treaty of Versailles, it now has ﬁfty-one members with
the addition of others probable in the near future. Dis-
putes between nations have been successfully mediated,
a world court has been established, mandates affecting
some 13,000,000 backward peoples have been awarded,
and a plan adopted for the suppression of the opium

The Church

The two outstanding industrial crises of this year—
the coal strike and the railway strike—have disturbed
the Nation from end to end. The one produces a situa-
tion of peril to the health and eventually the lives of
thousands While the other which interrupts the circu‘
lation of the Nation’s blood threatens the life of the
Nation itself. Workers declare that wages are not just
and reasonable while employers just as emphatically
declare that higher wages cannot be paid from earnings
and both present convincing proof that they are right.
Unfortunately the public is less concerned with the
rights involved in the controversy than with the incon-
veniences to which it is subjected. There is grave dan-
ger that the public will lose conﬁdence in and sympathy
for both sides.

What‘is to be the attitude of the church? During
the last ten years there have been about 25,000 strikes
and lockouts in the United States in which almost
20,000,000 persons have been directly involved. These
have occasioned great economic loss and in many cases
there have been outbreaks of violence and some loss of
life. The church is the most inﬂuential institution in
the Nation. In the face of present conditions it cannot
ignore its responsibility. The church lacks the technical
knowledge to become the arbitrator or referee in settling
disputes between employers and their employes and yet
if industrial peace shall take the place of strife in this
land it must be brought about by the church. A great
change in the economic world has taken place within
little more than a generation. The introduction of ma-
chinery has brought about a, transformation in industry
so that the employer is no longer an individual but an
aggregation. Capital found that there were many ad—
vantages in combination. Pretty soon the same spirit
of combination developed among workmen so that we
now have two formidable combinations working together
but wholly out of sympathy with each other. Labor is
seeking to extend its position of power and inﬂuence
while employers are seeking to prevent such extension.
The church has not been able to adjust itself to this
changed condition and in consequence it has not had a
very convincing message for either party. Our present
responsibility is to preach the law of right and justice
to both. If both sides would accept right as their rule

' disputes would soon end.

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traﬂic and for co-operation in suppressing white-slavery.

\Vorld conditions are disquieting but they constitute
a distinct challenge to every servant of Christ to put
his utmost of strength and resources into the Christian
program.

If the servants of Christ do their part, out of the
wreckage and chaos will come a new world in which
men will be brothers and Christ will be King.

and Industry

Industrial peace cannot be established on any other
law. Regardless of which side is the winner in this con-
troversy it is the duty of the Christian forces of America
to undertake to create an atmosphere in which such

Widespread strife can never again obtain. Long ago this

world was inhabited by living monsters of enormous size
and prodigous strength. They are all dead now and
their huge bones are found in fossil beds here and there.
Yet nobody killed them. The climate changed and they
died. It is the business of the church to change the
climate so that hatred and strife cannot survive. This
will require study and demand high courage but in
Christ’s name it must be done. To assume that the
blame is wholly on either side would be a mistake. One
does not need intimate knowledge of all the issues in-
volved to be convinced that neither side is guiltless.

It is heartening to know that there are many earnest
souls, employers and employes, who are at work on con-
structive experiments and that many of these are bring-
ing splendid results. The church must not enter the lists
as the friend of capital or the friend of labor. but it
must go out as the friend of man. With utmost sympa-
thy for all it must demand perfect fairness of all.

New Secretary Board of Lay Activities

Prof. G. L. Morelock, President of the McFerrin
School, Martin, Tenn., has been elected Secretary of
the Board of Lay Activities and has accepted. He has
been engaged in educational work for nearly twenty
years and has been president of McFerrin School since
1914. He was a member of the last General Conference,
is a member of the Board of Education, and has been
Conference Lay Leader of the Memphis Conference for
the last four years. He will have in the new position
to which he has been called a wonderful opportunity
for service and leadership.

According to ﬁgures recently published by Walter
Laidlaw, a. special agent of the Census Department at
Washington, the membership of religious bodies in the
United States on Dec. 31, 1922, totalled 46,059,500, an
increase of 4,132,646 in ﬁve years. The membership of
religious bodies, as nearly as can be calculated, was over
42 per cent of the whole population. Fifteen years ago
it was 40.4 per cent of the population.

294. THE MISSIONARY VOICE

Through Grace

From many lips is heard, “A great leader has passed,
a wonderful friend has gone from our sight.” Back of
these words there lies the “inexpressible,” for no great
life can be portrayed in words; and to write adequately
of Miss Belle Harris Bennett, would be to reveal some
of God’s loadings in the ongoing of His Kingdom; to
tell the story of a unique manifestation of Himself.
To understand in any sense the mystery of God’s pur-
pose worked out in this life, we must go far back and
seek to know the elements which entered in, and then
add to these His marvelous grace working in and
through her.

For generations back her ancestors have been the
embodiment of courageous daring and independence of
spirit; they have stood for human freedom; they have
been truly democratic statesmen in the generic sense
of that word.

Miss Bennett was the daughter of Samuel Bennett
and Elizabeth Chenault; born at the old Homelands
near Richmond, Kentucky. She was one of eight chil-
dren, having six brothers and one sister. The Bennetts
came to America among those who ﬁrst settled at James-
town, taking a prominent part in the political affairs
of those early days; members of the House of Burgesses
of the Virginia colony, and leaders in the colonial strug-
gle for freedom.

By and by their descendants pushed westward, pass-
ing the mountains and ﬁnding themselves in the w0nder-
ful expanse of country now known as the “Blue Grass
region of Kentucky.” Here they have maintained the
same spirit; of independence and power of leadership as
did their ancestors, standing for the defense of freedom
and taking a prominent part in the making of the Ken-
tucky commonwealth.

A century and a half has passed since the Bennetts
dared the perils of the “Great lVest.” During that pe‘

riod many of them have continued among the leaders

in political all'airs, serving in State Legislative bodies,
and in two instances as governors of states and members
of the United States Senate. Miss Bennett‘s own
brother. the Honorable. John Bennett, was an able lawn
yer at the Kentucky bar, and for a number of years
served as a member of the Kentucky Senate.

The Chenaults, Miss Bennett‘s ancestors on the ma-
ternal side, were among the French Hugeuots, who came
seeking a release from the religious persecutions of their
own land; they too settled in the Virginia colony. After
the war of the Revolution, many of their descendants
with the same heroic spirit which had led their fathers
across the sea, and given them a foremost place in the.
struggle for f reedom. set their faces westward, crossing
the rugged hills and ﬁnding their home, also, in the
rich hills of Kentucky.

OCTOBER

and Inheritance

Thus, we can easily see that the love of freedom,
the spirit of independence and daring statesmanship,
was Miss Bennett’s God-given inheritance. Out in the
open ﬁelds of the Blue Grass country, and in this strong
mental atmosphere, she grew from childhood to woman-
hood. Her early education was received in the nearby
country schools, and in the Sunday school held in the
little brick Methodist church in the neighborhood. As
she advanced in years, she was given every advantage
that the times afforded to the women of her day, for
her family set a high value on education, and the belief
in an equal opportunity for women was one of their
creeds. The sons of the family took their degrees from
Yale, Centre College, Old Transylvania, and other Uni-
versities, while the daughters received their training at
the best private schools that were then available. Miss
Bennett ﬁrst attended the school of Dr. Robert L. Breck,
an eminent Presbyterian divine, and one of the notable
scholars of his time. She later attepded a private school
at College Hill, Ohio, which ranked at that time as the
best school for young women in the West.

In the home and in the social circle, she was always
easily the center of the group, for she possessed a per-
sonal charm, a strength of mind, and an independence
of spirit that never fails to attract and challenge. A
number of her young girlhood years were spent in the
gay round of social life, which the aﬂluence of her sur-
roundings could easily afford. Her eyes and her heart,
however, always seemed open to the cry of human need
around her; through this appeal God was speaking to
her heart. One day she heard Him, and with a full sur-
render, obeyed. Then it happened that one Sabbath
day while the young people in the family were enjoying
the pleasure of a social afternoon, she hurriedly ate her
dinner and drove away to open a Mission Sunday school
in an old mill down by the riverside.

This was the beginning of a new life, for from that
time on, “obedience to God and a chance for His little
ones,” became the watch words of her life. Her great
statesmanlike mind and her charming personality, hence-
forth were dedicated to the service of God. Her inherent
love of freedom became a religious passion, expressing
itself in behalf of the less advantaged. The family’s gift
of statesmanship, found in her its largest embodiment.
for this gift she dedicated to the worldwide Kingdom of
God. Through her God’s gifts of grace began to multiply
the natural gifts of inheritance.

The beginning of the Mission Sunday school soon led
out into a larger service, for she and her sister, who was
her closest companion, became interested in the Confer-
ence VVoman’s Missionary \Vork, attending a meeting
held in Carlisle, Kentucky. While there she became
interested in the establishment of a training school for

missionaries. The supplying of this need soon became

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HOMELANDS, WHITE HALL, KENTUCKY.
Home of Miss Belle H. Bennett until 1890, when the famlly moved to Richmond, Ky.

to her a direct call. The conviction that this was the
voice of God so deepened, that one night as she lay in
her bed, she suddenly sat upright, responding in an
audible voice: “Yes, Lord, I will do it!” A long illness
followed, and before she had fully recovered, she was
asked to attend the meeting of the Woman’s Board of
Foreign Missions held in Little Rock, Arkansas. When
invited to the platform to speak of her plans, because of
her physical weakness, she alternately sat and stood,
fervently pouring out to her audience the impassioned
longing of her whole heart. She presented the need for
the establishment of a training school with such convic-
tion, that as she closed, a resolution was passed granting
permission to begin the raising of money for this enter-
prise and appointing her the agent to do this work. This
was her ﬁrst public work, and she entered into it single-
handed, having very few who believed in the enterprise.
Undaunted, however, she went all over the South pre-
senting her cause with such power that everywhere peo-
ple reSponded with gifts. At a camp meeting conducted

at Park Hill Campground by the Rev. Sam Jones, she
spoke to a large audience. After she had ﬁnished, Mr.
Jones had her sit down where the people could bring her
their money. They crowded forward, men, women and
children, with gifts great and small, pouring out their
treasures. Wherever she went, there was the same
response. People took off their rings, watches, and
jewelry to present them to the Lord‘s cause. A gift of
Dr. Nathan Scarritt, Kansas City, Mo., of $25,000.00 and
ground for the building, provided the church raise a like
amount, became a challenge to the whole church and a
great impetus to the enterprise. Miss Bennett toured
the South, presenting this challenge and urging the peo-
ple to make good the promised gift. The phenomenal
success of this undertaking was a triumph of this one
woman’s faithful obedience and statesmanlike vision.
More than a thousand trained workers have been sent
forth from Scarritt Bible and Training School since its
opening, September 14, 1892.

From that time on, Miss Belle H. Bennett, continued

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to be an outstanding ﬁgure in the missionary .work of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. She saw this

work grow from a small beginning to a great force,

ministering in nine great mission ﬁelds.

The very ﬁrst home mission work enterprised by the
women, was carried on through a Parsonage and Home
Mission Society. The organization through which this
work functioned, was a, Central Committee, of which
Miss Bennett was a member. A few years later this
Central Committee was formed into a VVoman’s Board
of Home Missions, and Miss Bennett was chosen as the
president. Indeed, through all the years of its existence,
this Board had no other president. Previous to the
organization of the Woman’s Board of Home Missions,
there had been organized a Woman’s Board of Foreign
Missions. In 1910 these two Boards were united, form-
ing the VVoman’s Missionary Council; without a dis-
senting vote, Miss Bennett was chosen as the leader of
this great united organization, continuing in this posi—
tion to the time of her death.

Miss Bennett’s missionary service was not conﬁned
merely to the work of the women of her church—shegave
just as freely and unstintedly of her time and money for
the ongoing of the general missionary work. The
establishment of the Mission in Africa probably would
have been delayed for years had she not been .the strong
ally of Bishop Lambuth in pushing it forward. So
eminent was her service to her own church, that Wes-
leyan College, one of the colleges of the Kentucky Con-
ference, conferred upon her the degree of LL. D.

She was not content even in touching life as repre-
sented, in the mission fields of the M. E. Church, South;
but was constantly giving and praying for the uplift of
God’s children of every race and in every clime. It was
her ambition to educate, at her own personal expense, at
least one child of each of the races of the children of
men. We believe she accomplished this end, and prob-
ably went far beyond it. She also reached out beyond
the conﬁnes of her own church in her inter-denomi-
national service.

When the two great Methodisms, North and South,
celebrated their 100th anniversary of Missions in 1919,
Miss Bennett was the only woman member of the large
joint Commission that planned the enterprise. Her lat-
est missionary achievement was the bringing together
a number of different \Voman’s Mission Boards of
America for the establishment of a great health center
and nurse training school in Shanghai, China. The
plans are to develop this into a great medical school for
the women of China. This will be the consummation of
a dream that for years has been burning in Miss Ben-
nett’s heart. One of the buildings of this great plant is
to b “.111' her name.

Miss Bennett’s statesmanlike vision of Christian serv-
ice led her even beyond the bounds of any missionary
organization. Wherever there was an age-long wrong,

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or a human need, theie she heard an insistent call. It

was through her fearless initiative and untiring efforts, .
due to her undying conviction that democracy should.

have a universal application regardless of sex or race,
that the women of her church after twelve years of per-
sistent effort, were granted the right to have a voice in
the government of their church. Four years ago this
right was granted, and Miss Bennett was elected by
her own Conference on the ﬁrst ballot, as a delegate to
the General Conference. The call of political suffrage
for women received her most loyal and ardent support.

N o biography could in any sense be complete that did
not mention her outstanding work in behalf of the Negro
people of the South. Four thousand Negroes live in her
home town, Richmond, Kentucky. They believed in her
and looked to her for guidance in all that pertained to
their welfare. One of the outstanding experiences in
her religious life came at a period when she found time
to conduct a Bible class in one of the Negro churches of
Richmond. There were six hundred members in her
class, and the inspiration which she received from that
work, she carried far beyond her own home town into
the hearts and lives of the women all over the church.

Her strong stand for right'and justice to the Negro,‘

aroused the women of the Southern Methodist Church,

until they have become the leaders in the inter-racial
work of the South. This forward movement must be'

attributed to Miss Bennett’s vision and leadership.

She gave to the missionary cause, over thirty-ﬁve

years of service, ﬁlled to the full, without one cent of
money compensation; truly a gift of love.

Her able service and worldwide vision made her a
peer among men and: