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Excerpt from The Boston Pioneers of the Woman's Union Missionary Society, Nov; 16, 1860 Nov; 16, 1910: A Memorial
Rarely does any notable Society materialize without pro phetic signs. This Society is no exception in that respect. Events that were not seen. At the outset in their relation to what was to follow are now clear, and they remind one of the little cloud no larger than a man's hand which brought a great rain; even so the Woman's Union Missionary Society during these fifty years has brought showers of blessing. In the year 1832, one of the subsequent founders of this Society was secretary of the Female Primary Foreign Mis sionary Society of the Second Baptist Church and Congregation of Boston, and in her annual report she says, 'tis right, aside from the cause of Missions generally, that we should have the same desire for the enlightening and Christianizing of our own sex. And at the time of Dr. Judson's last visit to America in 1845 she heard the following conversation: Would you not like single women to go to women in Foreign Lands? To which Dr. Judson replied, I would like a whole ship load of them. A more recent instance of prophetic signs is cited in the first number of Crumbs, the first publication of the Woman's Union Missionary Society. An unknown heroine writes to Mrs. Mason, wife of Rev. Dr. Francis Mason, a missionary in Burmah, that application to one of the large societies was refused as they did not send out unmarried ladies unprotected. I looked around, she says, for some other way by which I might reach my poor heathen sisters, and on seeing your Circular felt the plan was one to which my heart responded. I do not know as you receive ap plications from strangers. If a young lady (presumably herself)should receive support from her own church, or from the churches of an Association, would you take her under your direc tion? If it should be impossible for me to go with you, when will there be another opportunity? 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.
