MOTHERS’ UNION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 March 1933, Page 2

MOTHERS’ UNION

BRANCH FORMED AT ALL SAINTS A branch of the Mothers’ Union was formed in All Saints parish on Thursday when the Vicar, the Rev. D. Haultain, presided over a good attendance. The following office bearers were elected: —President, Mrs D. Haultain; vice presidents, Mesdames E. G. Wilson, H. D. McKellar and G. Burrougli senior; secretary and treasurer, Mrs L. Forster; magazine secretary, Mrs B. Tomlinson; auditor, Mrs R. 0. Millard. It was decided to meet on the third Tuesday of each month and to join in with the Cathedral branch for the regular joint services. The Vicar expressed the hope and belief that the branch would be a great power for spiritual help and fellowship amongst the women of the parish. This great Glmrch Society, whose membership now reaches just over half a million, had its beginning in a small country parish in Hampshire in 1870, and about ten years later was established as a Diocesan Organisation under the sanction of the late Dr Harold Browne, Bishop of Winchester. It is now working in every Diocese in England and Wales, in Ireland, and in 110 Dioceses overseas. In May, 1896, the Mothers’ Union was centralised under a Council, with president and secretary, in the Church House, Westminster, in 1912 it became an incorporated society under the Board of Trade, and in 1926 it was granted a Royal Charter.

The three central objects of the Mothers’ Union are:— • 1. To uphold the Sanctity of Marriage 2. To awaken in all mothers a sense of their great responsibility in the training of their boys and girls—the Fathers and Mothers of the Future. 3. To organise in every place a band of mothers who will unite in prayer, and seek by their own example to lead their families in purity and holiness of life.