At the suggestion of George L. Snively, the Association’s first General Secretary, the organization changed its name from Benevolent Association of the Christian Church to National Benevolent Association of the Christian Church, to better describe the mission.
The office of General Secretary was created in 1901. Snively was a well-known lecturer on behalf of the “New Woman” and “an apt successor to Mattie Younkin,” serving until December 1905. (Inasmuch, p50.)