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The Evangelical Educational Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church was organized in November 1866 as a “general Education society” uniting the diocesan Societies of New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Virginia [and possibly Maryland] with the Divinity Students’ Aid Society in Philadelphia. Twenty years later, it changed it’s name to the Evangelical Education Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church (EES).

EES occupied an important place in the polity of The Episcopal Church in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was a strong and representative voice for promoting the thread of “rational religion” that dominated worship and clerical leadership in The Episcopal Church up to the post-Reconstruction period. It did this by supporting the education of men for ministry; sponsoring gatherings, conferences and workshops; publishing books and pamphlets; aiding campus evangelism and theological rigor; and providing biblically-centered Christian education.

EES expanded its membership in the 20th century by merging with the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge (PESPEK) in 1949 and the Episcopal Evangelical Fellowship (EEF) in 1961. Although a membership organization for most of its history, it shifted to a grant-making organization in the 1990s with an annual donation drive replacing membership dues. Grants are disbursed through the Evangelism for the 21st Century (E-21) grant program, established in 1977, to support emerging forms of lay and ordained ministries.

In 2014, the EES Board changed the organization’s name to the Episcopal Evangelism Society. It continues to support clerical education, publish books and newsletters, and award grants.

The China Oral History Project began as the brainchild of the Reverend Leslie Lindsey Fairfield, who served in the Episcopal Missionary District of Shanghai from 1935 to 1940. Aware that few Episcopal missionaries had documented their experiences in China, Fairfield feared that an important chapter in the history of the Church's missionary work might be lost. In 1977, he approached Episcopal Church Archivist V. Nelle Bellamy with the prospect of initiating an oral history project, which would target some 60 former China missionaries. Bellamy agreed to sponsor the project with administrative and logistical support. After securing a small grant from the Cushman Charitable Trust, the Archives assumed responsibility for the administration of these funds and all subsequent contributions to the project.

Fairfield set the project in motion in 1981, when he enlisted William Moss, former President of the National Oral History Association, as a volunteer interviewer. Moss conducted five interviews of former missionaries. In late 1982, Wayne Anderson, Director of the Oral History Office of Northeastern University, was hired to continue with the interviews. In 1984, the Archivist instigated the formation of a Steering Committee for the project, consisting of herself, Dr. Paul Ward, and Fairfield, who would serve as chairman. The Committee hired Cynthia McLean to replace Wayne Anderson as interviewer. McLean conducted the remaining 26 of the project's 56 total interviews.

The project proceeded slowly as funding remained a persistent problem as many of the Committees grant applications were met with rejection. The project took a turn for the better in 1986 with a Lily Memorial Fund grant of $1,500 and a $5,000 Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation grant, followed by a $2,500 United Thank Offering grant the next year. The project was completed with a final grant of $6,000, which Fairfield secured from the Diocese of Western Massachusetts in 1988.

By 1989, McLean had left the project and in 1991 the Committee discontinued the interviews. The project reached completion in 1992, when the Archives transcribed the last of the interviews.

By the project's end, it had targeted 85 missionaries and/or missionary couples. Of that number, eleven were deceased by the time the interviewing got underway. The three interviewers conducted a total of 56 interviews over the course of the project. One missionary couple, the Fairfields, gave two of the 56 interviews. The Steering Committee abandoned 19 potential interviews when the project fell into abeyance in 1989.

The Board of Foreign Parishes of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America is a corporation founded in New York State in 1883. The purpose of the corporation is to establish and support Episcopal churches in Europe. These congregations were established to provide a familiar place of worship and a church community for Americans living in or visiting Europe.

The Board acts as a trusteeship for parishes in holding legal title to their property. It acts as both a fiduciary agent and a coordinating business entity for congregations of The Episcopal Church on the European continent. As of 2008, the Board served eight congregations. In 2019, fifteen Episcopal Church congregations were under the supervision of bishop for the Episcopal Churches in Europe (ECIE). It is unclear which, if any, of the additional seven are aided by the Board of Foreign Parishes.

Two parishes maintain independent boards: St. Paul’s Church (Rome, Italy) and St. James’ Church (Florence, Italy). Together, the three boards manage endowments for the Convocation of American Churches in Europe.

Born (circa 1858) and raised in New York City, Agnes P. Mahony graduated from the New York City Training School for Nurses in 1881. For the next twenty years, Mahony served in various nursing positions throughout New York.

Mahony entered missionary work upon her appointment to Liberia on March 12, 1901. She served as a nurse/missionary in the Episcopal mission in Liberia from 1901 to 1902 and from 1904 to1906. Mahony resigned from the mission in 1902 because of failing health, but she returned to the United States in 1904 only to retire for the same reasons in 1906. During her work in Liberia, Mahony founded the House of Bethany at Cape Mount.

William Scarlett was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1883. He began his career in 1911 as dean of Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix, Arizona, a position he held for eleven years. From 1922 until his election as bishop coadjutor in 1930, he
served as dean of Christ Cathedral in St. Louis. In 1933 he was appointed Bishop of Missouri and became a tireless crusader for social reform, committing the resources of the diocese to helping those left jobless and homeless by the Great Depression. In 1935 the Episcopal City Mission was created to minister to those in the city’s jails. He also revitalized Christian education in the congregations, recognizing that the future of the Church was at stake.

Known as a liberal clergyman, Scarlett championed the idea of church unity and wanted cooperation among all denominations. He was one of the founders of the St. Louis Chapter of the Conference of Christians and Jews and was invited to share ownership of St. Luke’s Hospital with the Presbyterians. As president of the Urban League of St. Louis, he sought to make his community aware of problems in race relations. While on the national board of the Urban League and American Civil Liberties Union, Scarlett advocated for the equal rights of blacks long before the issue was addressed by the institutional church. He retired in 1952 and was succeeded by Bishop Lichtenberger.

William Scarlett died in Castine, Maine on March 28, 1973.