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Training the Children for Heaven

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A hundred years ago this month Mary Sumner , wife of a country clergyman, summoned a meeting of mothers in the drawing-room of the rectory of Old Alresford. This was the beginning of the Mothers' Union-the worldwide Anglican association which now has nearly 300.000 members in this country alone.
Robert Dougall looks at the past and present of the Mothers' Union and introduces some of its members. Producer ANGELA TILBY

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Mary Sumner
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Robert Dougall
Producer:
Angela Tilby
Source: Radio Times

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