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A fascinating look at the history of women's missionary societies in America and England, this book offers insights into the role of women in 19th-century religious movements. Drawing on archival documents and first-person accounts, the author explores the challenges and achievements of women who dedicated their lives to spreading the gospel around the world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Historical Sketches of Woman's Missionary Societies in America and England Manifestly, the chief purpose and work of the Christian church is to be about its Father's business in recovering to him the lost allegiance of the race. Only as we have some comprehension of the magnitude and some conviction of the importance of this work, - only as we gauge it from the height of God's love to the depth of man's need, - through all its manifold relations, out, on, into the illimitable, unspeakable future, do we realize that for its completion there must be the effectual working in its measure of every part, the development and exercise of every force. Manhood and womanhood must each bring its distinctive offerings as of old, in the typical tabernacle and temple, before throughout the whole earth shall arise an holy temple unto the Lord. The paean of praise is to Be universal, but the harmony will not be complete until there be added to the deep bass and strong tenor, the trill of the treble and the softness of the alto. Two-thirds of the Christian church, having this work in hand, are women, and few questions are better worth considering, how all that is on her, all that is distinctively, pecularly feminine, may be wrought into this grand consummation, to accomplish which Christ came, and for which he waits, expecting until his enemies be made his footstool. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."