The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-07-01
OF THE MISSION
FIELDS
WONAN'S WORK.

ItCi!I ti.C .e1SoIOHoiN 1@S' iNN VI shS
World .
Tie first unmarried woman wa;
sent by tie church to foreign fields il
the year 1920; III 1888 there were
only -; but BY the end OF the yeal
1851 the number had risen to 100
There are now 407. In 20 years tho
number of female teachers increased
from 407 to S92.
Shall women be commissioned tc
preach and baptize? is question
much asi5;tted to-day. We thinl
not
Since 1887 the gifts OF tie womer
OF the Southern Baptist churche:
have steadily increased from $4,000
to SIS, ,129 last year.
The women of the congregations
church gave last year S95,55S and il
the interior to about $4,000, a tota
loss from the preceding year of about
$4,000.
According to the official report
there are to-day no less than GS dea-
coness mother houses in various
countries with 10.412 sisters and
1868 probationaries laboring at
3,6u localities More than S2,000,-
600 are spent annually in carrying on
this labor of love.
The converted Indian women oil
South Dakota during the past seven
years Lave averaged $4,000 year q
a total Of $1,000.
All around our churches multitudes
are perisLing for such words Of love
and sympathy as The women OF the
church eau and ought to speak. Men
are not often reached through their
heads, but through their hearts, and
women know the most direct chan
mel to the human heart.
The Lord la, wonderfully quail
fed women to go into the homes OF
the people and sit down by tie fire
side and talk of Jesus and heaven.
They are more skilled and more gerv
tie il Introducing the subject of re-
ligion than men, and this spirit oi
love and tenderness Of manner gives
them much the advantage III missic n
work. Ruth, the ideal woman, was a
cleaner in the field. Why so many
idlers in the harvest field to day -?
When the GRO Of Jesus touches a
dead soul it springs into new life,
and the presence Of this new life OF
spirituality is the true test Of Chris
iilrity.
Onc of the noblest acts OF any
young woman is to forsake home and
friends and kindred and take her life
in her hand and go to an unknown
foreign land to tell the story of Jesus.
Size who has that heroic faith, and
makes great sacrifice for Jesus and
precious souls becomes at once great.
Brother and Sister League OF
South Carolina are doing a grand and
noble work, for i'll the regions beyond
where no sound OF the blessed gospel
mas ever been heard may Gods rich
est blessings rest upon them both
and amid the dark and discouragine
hours that will come to them, may
they have ever the presence OF the
Blessed Spirit to comfort and en-
tighten.
We some times feel that the great
est cross IN this lie 10 bear is the
cross OF leaving home and all TIE
scenes of youthful memories and will
the cross Of Jesus follow him on into
the regions beyond" Heaven is by
the way of the cross.
There are thousands in oul
churches who are loading themselve:
down with sham crosses, who hang
them in their ears and about theil
necks but who refuse the real cross
of the Lord Jesus with its self-deuia
and its c:ucitixion.. It is possible
sometimes to enter into solemn mock.
cry in the sight of heaven.
Rev. G. ?. Bostick, I returned mis-
sionary will be in Manning one Sun.
day in this month and tell US about
mission work in China.
All sinners and intideis respect ar
honest, earnest, faithful Christian
man or woman.
Christianity is one of the greatest
human Jewelers.. It knows no rich
DO poor. None are SO rich that taey
do not need salvation and none &C
poor and low-falien and covered with
the !eprosy OF sin and the filth of so.
ciety that the arms of Divine Mercy
may rot reach down to the depth Of
their degradation and lit them up t.
be heirs of God and joint heirs will
Christ Jesus Christian women are
Gods angels for the accomplishing
of tits great work.
Many Il time the tears have
streamed down the cheeks OF hard.
ened men, degraded and lest to hon,
OF and noble manhood as their minds
flashed back to the time of their III.
nocent childhood through the inhu.
ence OF a few simple words spoken by
an earnest Christian woman.
There will be sermon preached
in the Institute hall next Sunda,
morning on the snbject of influence.
Come and hear this sermon.
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