The Girls' Friendly Society
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article463
- Author
- Campbell, Ethel
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Bulletin [Council for Social Service]
- Date
- 1918 September
- Author
- Campbell, Ethel
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1918 September
- Issue
- 16
- Page
- 1-21 p.
- Notes
- Contents: Publications of the Council for Social Service of the Church of England in Canada -- The Girls' Friendly Society / By Miss Ethel Campbell, Central Secretary of the Society in Canada.
- "Much misunderstanding has existed in the minds of many people in this country in regard to the Girls' Friendly Society. As they understand it, it is a Society which exists solely for the benefit of domestic servants, most of whom have come from England. Could any opinion be more beknighted and unjust ? Surely a movement, as wide as the world and having as its object the raising of the standard of a womanly character, can never be confined to, nor concerned, with one class only. Its aim is to touch every girl in the land, high or low, rich and poor, who is pure in heart, and through them, the national life. But we must not expect the girl to come to us, -- we must go to the girl (p. 20)". "It is more than a matter of parochial importance, this crusade for purity. It is a great world-wide movement which, with God's help, will increase in momentum as time goes by until the forces of evil which threaten to undermine our national life have been crushed under foot, though, perhaps, never entirely wiped out (pp. 20-21)".
- Contents divided into sub-sections: Origin and Development -- Presidents -- The Three Central Rules -- Objects -- Membership -- Associates -- Honorary Associates -- Branches -- Organization -- Departments -- Commendation -- Missions -- Candidates -- Lodges -- Holiday Houses -- Literature -- Social Service -- Finances.
- Colophon: Hanson, Crozier & Edgar, Printers, Kingston.
- Subjects
- Girls' Friendly Society - Canada
- Girls' Friendly Society - History
- Church work with girls - Anglican Church of Canada
- Location
- General Synod Archives