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THE KING’S DAUGHTERS SOCIETY.

About a year ago, ten or fifteen girls might have been seen sitting in their teacher’s room, at Tougaloo University, while she spoke to them of forming a society.  The members of this society, she said, were to do all the good they could in every way they could.

Now, of course, we want a name for our society.  If we are going to do all the good we can, we are worthy to be called followers of Christ, and as he is a King, we call ourselves “King’s Daughters.”  When our society began, we had but eight or ten members, but at almost every meeting there was some one who wanted to join.  The meetings were carried on every Sunday evening, and some one of the members was appointed to lead the next meeting.  During the week we try in every way to do something definite to please our King; to go to no place in which we would be ashamed to have our King see us, and to keep no company with which we would be ashamed to have him see us.  Our society continued to grow and prosper, and finally the young men concluded to organize a King’s Sons Society.  During the summer the two societies held joint meetings.  New members were continually joining.  As the meetings were new to us when we first began, they were not as interesting as they grew to be at a later date; but generally the time was all occupied.  Some one would read a portion of Scripture and offer prayer, after which a story would be read or told by one of the members, who had prepared it during the week.  Then we would tell how we had kept our pledge, or in what way we had been helped by being King’s Daughters.  Sometimes, when we had broken our pledge, we would leave off our badge for a week.

The first Sunday in every month we have what we call our consecration meeting.  The President calls the roll and each one answers by giving a verse of Scripture, or her experience as a King’s Daughter.  The third Sunday in every month we elect the officers who are to serve during the next month.  These consist of President, Vice-President, Secretary, a sick committee, whose business it is to visit and help any who are sick, and a committee on invitation, whose business it is to find out who would like to join our society.  They report the names at the next meeting.  Sometimes we have a question-box into which we put questions regarding the society.  These are written on small slips of paper and read by one of the members.  If they are directed to a particular one, that person answers them; but if not, any one in the Society answers them.