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NOTICES OF BOOKS- 343
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follow " Let the all our large le which Missionary has been Societies nobl , iven both b for a few home and and emp forei loy gn , in work the , p _JBible lace - which Woman examp befits ' s Mission them , is female connected agents with . y We g the are Bible not y Society sure , to ; what but we extent believe the made in connexion with itand under its
that , at any rate , the attempt wasfirst , least sheltering women , the as Church protection agents Missionary ; they ; the were in ' Country Society , schools they say has Towns the , the latel onl first ' y Mission work sent in out the hith ' hav three field erto e long ; ladles arid emp ht las to fit loyed t labor , not for
¦ in women connexion but as with Sisters it—not among Sisters , in the Zenanas y of the Bast thoug . _! N * one of latter former these p emp , lans only loyment , however include , is , as altogether as paid yet agent not meet s remunerative , women the want of the of : nevertheless unedu women c ' ated s labor , class it . is , The the and first two the
step " This in a good leads cause us to , the and consideration may Grod prosper of another it ! important subject as regards women ' s work in the Church ; shall it be a let paid those agency who ? To which ive their we
s rep ervices ly , Most at their certainl own y—we do not do say so wholl and y those ; who cannot can receive g the er remunerationThis expense need , not imp ; lanything derogatory to , the latter ;
it prop is a principle fully . recognised in Scripture y , that the ' laborer is worthy of his hire . ' The woman-worker need not , therefore , be esteemed would be less
great earnest mistake , disinterested to limit , the or faithful labor of , because women she in the receives Church it . to those It who have a time to give . There are six millions of women in the United Kingdom , of
whom of a aid three millions none are of obli them ged can to do earn so their in the own Chur living chit . is While evident , for that want a very p numerou agency s , and also a very useful class of women , must be , in a great
measureexcluded , from service . The honor of supplying a missing link ' organiz in the ation Church , the has hearty been admiration claimed it for so justl Bible- deserves women ; we but contend , yielding it to is onl this
half the ' missing link ' while it does not recognise y the , paid employment of y educated indeedis women a far more . We comprehensive want Bible-ladies word , , as and well one as Bible of hi - g women her meaning . c Woman than , '
' lady ; , ' but we use ' lady' now , as we said in the first chapter , in our Saxon ' siding ancestors' acceptation the household of the or term holding , Hlafdi such ge— ' a a g lace iver of in bread the household '—one pre of
over , p render faith . better There than are m a any lad services _biit there in are the also Church which services a poor which -woman a lad can can many y
render better than a poor y , woman ; that is , supposing them both to be equal in religious knowledge and experience . "
before Much this thoug and ht similar , much , field previous s of lab prepara or can tion be opened -will be to necessary educated
women : it is much to break down prejudice , which is ever the nec obstacle ted with to all improvement efforts to am . eliorate As regards the condition missionary of work the , as con the - poor
sickand the suffering , it seems as if many -women , ill adapted , by educ , ation for governesses , yet compelled to earn their " bread , were sudden
well change suited of for for tune such occupation bereavemen . t , Many finds a herself gentlewoman t with t learn p , i ttance too
small on which to subsist , and at an age oo old o a new den accomp t on lishmen the bounty t , yet of too friends young . to To be such _^ con how tent congeni to be idle al would and depen work
like The this obj be e — ct how of all suitable the book to s their thus position briefly mentioned ! is eminently
Notices Of Books- 343
NOTICES OF BOOKS- 343
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/55/
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