By Maria Cristina Zaccarini
ISBN-10: 093422370X
ISBN-13: 9780934223706
Dr. Ailie Gale used to be one of the twentieth-century ladies missionaries in China whose letters to supporters performed a massive function in American conceptions of a distinct Sino-American friendship. This publication indicates how those letters from China demonstrate as a lot concerning the strivings of readers at domestic as they do approximately China throughout the tumultuous interval from 1911 to 1949.
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Sarah Butler, the biographer of Mrs. Juliana Hayes and Mrs. D. H. McGavock and chronicler of the History of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, was editor of an important periodical, the Woman’s Missionary Advocate, which constituted a major source for auxiliary members’ knowledge of the foreign field. 72 Like the Heathen Woman’s Friend and the Woman’s Missionary Friend, the Woman’s Missionary Advocate’s circulation grew significantly. 73 After 1883, requests for the leaflets and pamphlets published by the Literature Department of the Southern WFMS had far exceeded the 35,000 produced since 1881.
65 One important result of Willing’s idea for a more challenging arena for women missionary society members was “Uniform Readings,” which came as a supplement to the Heathen Woman’s Friend. With “Uniform Study,” female Methodist auxiliary members were provided with three months of instruction on the history and general characteristics of the country and people in each foreign field, then that nation’s general missionary history, and thirdly, the facts regarding its Methodist Episcopal Missions.
82 As Ailie Gale would understand several decades later, McGavock knew that these small sums insured the popularity of the movement. Moreover, the small sums involved did not preclude women from making a formidable financial contribution to the foreign missionary effort, enough to eventually allow women a measure of freedom from the dominance of their parent board. From its creation in 1878, to the death in 1895 of Mrs. McGavock, the Southern WFMS grew to 70,000 members, supporting 38 foreign missionaries, 109 teachers and helpers, 11 Bible women, twelve boarding schools, and one hospital.
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