Glasgow Business and Professional Women’s Club was chartered on October 6th, 1955, with 115 members. At that time, this club was the largest in the nation. Glasgow BPW has consistently remained one of Kentucky’s strongest BPW organizations. The membership represents a diverse background of women in the Glasgow-Barren County area.

Keep us, Oh God, from pettiness. Let us be large in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with fault-finding and leave off self-seeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face to face without self-pity and without prejudice. May we never be hasty in judgment and always generous. Let us take time for all things; Make us to grow calm, serene, gentle. Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straight-forward and unafraid. Grant that we may realize it is the little things that create differences, that in the big things of life, we are at one. And may we strive to touch and to know the great, common human heart of us all. And Oh Lord God, let us forget not to be kind. 

- Mary Stewart

The Collect was written by Mary Stewart, in Longmont, Colorado, in 1904, as a prayer for the day, not for any particular person or group. Miss Stewart had it published as a Collect for Club Women because, at the time, she believed that women working together with wide interests and important goals was new, and that a special meditation of their own would give them a sense of unity. The Collect soon was adopted among working women throughout the world. The first printing of the Collect was an obscure paragraph in a column of club notes in the Delineator. Copies later were printed locally. In 1909, Paul Elder and Company, San Francisco, printed it as a wall card, and it has since been reprinted in many forms, in American yearbooks by national organizations and in other publications around the world. Miss Stewart, who until 1910 signed the Collect with her pen name Mary Stuart, died in 1943. The Collect was officially adopted by the National Federation of Business and Professional Women/USA in 1920.

This emblem binds us all In one great sisterhood 

It bids us heed our Conscience call 

For a nobler womanhood. 

God guide us as we wear 

This emblem o'er our heart 

And keep us true and always fair 

God bless us as we part.