_Ex-Sec. Western Women's Unitarian Conf., Chicago, Ill._
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A Union Meeting of the Women's Auxiliary Conference for Suffolk
County, which includes all the branches of the Conference in the
Unitarian churches of Boston, was held at Arlington Street Church
on Thursday, Jan. 21, 1886.
At this meeting was officially announced, with the most profound
regret, the death of Miss Ellis, of Cincinnati. A brief account of
her life in connection with the work of the Conference was given by
Mrs. J. I. W. Thacher, Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, and Miss Abby W.
May, and it was unanimously agreed that there should be entered on
the records of the meeting, and transmitted to the friends of Miss
Ellis, an expression of our fullest appreciation of her beautiful
and self-sacrificing character, our high estimation of the work in
which she had already accomplished so much, and our deep and
earnest sympathy for those who have suffered an irreparable loss.
Our sorrow is not without the hope that the tender memory of a life
so pure and unselfish, and such earnest devotion to all the
principles of our religious faith, may influence for good the lives
of each and all of us, and prove an incentive to every member of
our Conference to further activity in the work we are trying to do.
EMILY A. FIFIELD, _Director_.
_For the Suffolk County Branches of the Women's Auxiliary Conference._
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PORTLAND, ME., Jan. 17, 1886.
MRS. FAYETTE SMITH, Director of Women's Conference:
At a recent meeting of the Portland branch of the Women's Auxiliary
Conference, an article in the "Christian Register," entitled "A
Candle of the Lord," was read; and on motion of Mrs. Dr. J. T.
Gilman, the Secretary was requested to express to your Conference
the sympathy of our little band in the death of Miss Sarah Ellis.
While we cannot have the sense of personal loss that you feel in
the extinguishment of that light, we have the highest admiration
for the work she accomplished under such limitations, and trust
that her example will be an incentive to every Unitarian woman to
do something to continue it, till the flame she kindled may become
a glorious light, glowing in every hamlet of our common country.
Very truly, MARY R. MCINTIRE.