Glimpses #83: Women Rally around the Missionary Cause
Format: 4-page bulletin insert
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Product Description: Civil War experiences provided a preparation for women assuming an important role in missions history. Much of the credit for the missionary revival between 1880 and the 1920's, the golden age of missionary expansion in American Protestantism, is due to the women's foreign mission movement which began at this time.
In 1834, Rev. David Abeel, missionary to China from the Reformed Church in America, told of Chinese women who wanted "female men" to come and share their Christianity with them. Sarah Doremus, wife of a wealthy New York businessman, was especially moved by this plea and attempted to organize a female missionary society, but there was intense opposition to single women being missionaries, and Sarah had to let her dreams languish. But in 1861 Mrs. Doremus founded the Women's Union Missionary Society. After the Civil War opposition seemed less. For fifteen years the society operated out of the Doremus home. After twenty years the society supported over 100 missionaries at twelve stations.
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