The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-01

Total from the women In one year $660.567 08
Woman's work for women has for it's object
the evEngelization of hundreds of millions of
heather women, most OF whom are only ac-
cessible to women. .sSuch considerations as
these Justify the belief that woman's work for
woman In missions 10 Of the Lord; that it is
rendering grand service, with good promise of
increasing usefulness, and that therefore it 10
entitled to the cordial cooperation and support
of every Christian woman who loves the king
dom Of our divine Lord and longs for its ex-
tension in the earth"
Now when We consider that the work of
missions at home and abroad, with the excep-
ton OF few centuries just after the ascension
Of Christ 20 heaven, had to wait about 1900
years before the church woke up again to the
responsibility OF caring for the unevangelized;
and that what has been attempted on a scale of
some magnitude is confined to the last fifty or
sixty years-we cannot escape the conviction
that we are yet only in the infancy of this grand
enterprise, and. like infants, have almost every
thing to learn by experiment in order to the
greatest efficiency.
Ii Christ's word is to be fulfilled, that the
gospel must be preached TO every creature, then
the mere handful of preachers must grow into
multitudes: agencies must be immensely multi
piled; and so, at last, the idea has taken root
and had rapid and prodigious growth, that
among these agencies Christian women are the
best fitted by nature education and grace for
the stupendous work Of evangelizing of the
women of heather lands.
AS knowledge now runs 10 and fro throughout
the earth, steam and electricity expediting its
running. all that occupy positions Of govern
mental power, find it necessary TO self-respect,
and to secure respect one from another, to have
at hand constantly means for the speedy aeQui-
sition of information concerning all move.
ments, socialistic, political, scientific aud re-
ligious that are going on in any and all parts OF
<f,x OIL hx-xs
large aud growing SCALE IN our own and other
Christian lands. seen 10 be backed up by the
sentiment and money of hundreds of thousands
of Christians, for the Christianizing OF women
in countries not Christsn, cannot escape the
attention of, nor be looked upon with indif-
ference by the astute Statesmen and counsellors
who manage the affairs OF king oms and en-
pires, When they contemplate a move of this
character they find themselves, however un-
willingly, in this circumstances, somewhat like
men standing Oh the beach, Inclined. 1t may be,
bat utterly impotent to stay the rising and in
coming OF the tides OF the ocean. To oppose
the movement with governmental authority, is
to lose caste with the rulers of the most en-
lightened and thrifty of powerful nations; to
favor Ii is to doom 10 desaetude, decay and
death the prejudices and superstitions TO which
they have been accustomed, and the institu-
lions founded upon them or nurrursd by them.
Hence, they begin TO see they must let such
movement have Its own way. with neither favor
nor opposition from them. Hence. too, whilst
instances OF murderous brutality toward
male missionaries become less AMI less
with the increase of enlightenment
among rulers and their subjects, instances
OF such brutality against Christian women, la
boring as missionaries, are virtually unknown.
though recently, even among. as In Africa, the
lowest grades OF unciviiized man. Inc VICE,
wide word, therefore. is open for. and becoming
more and more ready even, to welcome female
missionaries And, in that Providence has
.opened a great door and effeetuai." that Is
esfeetive and adapted to success, in presenting
opportunity for great effects Is II not evidently
the will of God that they before whom II has
been opened should enter il and push forward
their eyangelizing work with all the energy,
system. enthusiasm and heroic conservation
which the love of Christ warrants, aud the mis-
cradle condition of heather women amply tnsti-
fes? / know not how this practical conclusion
can be eyaded and ignored without disowning
Christ and so damaging soais at home ana
abroad know not row we can so well demon
stra,e car estimate OF religion as OF Infinite
preciousness to ourselves as by devlsing ways
and means of conierring It's alleged benefits TO
ourselves upon others. t. do this Is to be
Christ-like II come not" said he. ITO be min
istered unto but 20 minis err. To mlnlster-to
carry the blessed gospel with all its modifying,
eleyating, benign Influences TO the mliiions OF
poor, besotted, beniehted Victims OF ialss iea-
gion and of heather superstluon-is not THIS
womsn's work as well Is mans, eminenGy
Christ.like work. VINO has ever done so much
of il as to be sorry for his or her doings Wno
can do SO m sch OF il as TO 80 beyond the bounds
of duty or PRIVILEGE Even God Himself re-
joices 10 bring the buds and blossoms OF spring
time forth TO clothe tree and shrub ana plant
with every variety OF beauty and TO lsae the air
with fragrance, and to I'll It with the echoes OF
~. nj ~ lids of
minister TO human happiness. Through nature,
as well as BY revelation, aud most tenderiy aad
impressively through the redemption whica Is
In Christ Jesus. does he minister means and
motives and methods by which we may also
minister for the emancipation Of the morally