Mabel Howell was an early twentieth-century educator, church administrator, and foreign-mission leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for sixty years. She was born in South Orange, New Jersey, on Nov. 23, 1873, and died on May 19, 1957. She obtained a PhD from Cornell and completed sociology courses at the Chicago University of Theology. In 1903-1904, she introduced Sociology as a legitimate course for Christian missionaries at a time when this course was considered by many to be too “unreligious” for missionary study. She travelled with Belle Bennett in 1910 to Edinburgh as a delegate to the World Missionary Conference, and she later accompanied Bennett to Asia and South America. In the 1940s, she was a leader of the Scarritt Rural Center, a training center for foreign missionaries. (Compiled from “Mabel K. Howell: A Modern Apostle” by Barbara E. Campbell, 2016 and 2017)